| |
May 04, 2024
|
|
|
|
|
2010-2011 UMass Dartmouth Graduate Catalog [Archived Catalog]
|
MAR 557 - Geophysical Fluid Dynmaics3 credits
MAR 555 or PHY 554 or MNE 501 or equivalent. Dynamics of rotating stratified fluid flow in the ocean/atmosphere and laboratory. Compressibility, Boussinesq approximation. Geostrophic balance and vorticity. Poincare, Kelvin, Rossby waves, Geostrophic Adjustment. Ekman layers, spin-up. Continuously stratified dynamics: inertia gravity waves, potential vorticity, Quasigeostrophic dynamics. Cross-listed with PHY 557
|
|