MIT OpenCourseWare
Atmosphere, Ocean and Climate Dynamics
- Instructor
- Prof. Raffaele Ferrari
- Term
- Fall 2008
- Level
- Undergraduate
- What's inside
- 15 videos · 8 problem sets · 1 exam · 1 reading · 8 other files · 23 web pages
- Materials open
- Videos here · files on MIT OCW
About this course
Source: MIT OpenCourseWare 12.003 Atmosphere, Ocean and Climate Dynamics, Fall 2008, Prof. Raffaele Ferrari — original course page on ocw.mit.edu ↗. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Study order: MIT's own units, each a lecture sequence in MIT's listing order; no single course-wide order across units is claimed. Taken from MIT's published course files, downloaded from ocw.mit.edu on September 22, 2026. How RedLectern is built.
Before you start
Prerequisites are not listed here. Check MIT's own syllabus for this course.
How this course was organized
What's here, and what isn't
- This course has 15 videos, each embedded on its own MIT page, across 12 sections. They're shown in MIT's listing order within each section. A verified course-wide order is not claimed for this course.
Not included here
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Units
Each unit is offered as its own lecture sequence; there is no single course-wide order across units.
Materials by section
Grouped by section, as MIT organized them. Not sequenced or ordered.
Readings
Labs
GFDIII: Radial inflow
GFDV: Inertial circles
Assignments
13 files
- Assignment 1: The Earth's radiation budget Download
- draw_fig2 Download
- Problem set 2: Emission temperatures and greenhouse models Download
- Problem set 3: Hydrostatic balance and lapse rate Download
- Problem set 4: Convection and moist processes Download
- Problem set 5: Convection and moist processes Download
- Problem set 6: Atmospheric circulation Download
- Problem set 6: Geostrophic balance Download
- Problem set 8: Ocean Circulation Download
- Problem set 9: Ocean Circulation Download
- pucks_on_ice_script Download
- pucks_on_ice Download
- deriv Download
Exams
Other materials from this course
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MIT OpenCourseWare, Prof. Raffaele Ferrari, 12.003 Atmosphere, Ocean and Climate Dynamics, Fall 2008.
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