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Apr 30, 2024
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2011-2012 UMass Dartmouth Graduate Catalog [Archived Catalog]
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PHY 557 - Geophysical Fluid Dynmaics3 credits
PHY 554 or MNE 501 or MAR 555 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 MAR 557
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