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MIT OpenCourseWare
Quasi-Balanced Circulations in Oceans and Atmospheres
- Instructor
- Prof. Kerry Emanuel
- Term
- Fall 2009
- Level
- Graduate
- What's inside
- 1 lecture note · 21 other files · 2 web pages
- Materials open
- MIT OCW
About this course
Source: MIT OpenCourseWare 12.803 Quasi-Balanced Circulations in Oceans and Atmospheres, Fall 2009, Prof. Kerry Emanuel — original course page on ocw.mit.edu ↗. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Study order: MIT's own listing order, section by section. Taken from MIT's published course files, downloaded from ocw.mit.edu on September 23, 2026. How RedLectern is built.
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Lecture Notes
20 files
- Introduction Download
- Fundamental balance and conservations principles for Download
- Equations of motion Download
- Circulation Download
- Potential vorticity Download
- Invertibility Download
- Potential vorticity and invertibility in the shallow water equations Download
- Quasigeostrophy and Pseudo-potential vorticity Download
- Quasi-geostrophic potential vorticity Download
- An example Download
- Boundary conditions Download
- Eady edge waves Download
- The superposition principle Download
- The secondary circulation Download
- Higher-order balance systems Download
- Rossby waves Download
- Quasi-geostrophic Rossby waves Download
- Barotropic instability Download
- Baroclinic Instability Download
- The Charney-Stern Theorem Download
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Course outline
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Lecture 2: Fundamental balance and conservations principles for quasi-balanced flow
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Lecture 3: Equations of motion
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Lecture 4: Circulation
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Lecture 5: Potential vorticity
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Lecture 6: Invertibility
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Lecture 7: Potential vorticity and invertibility in the shallow water equations
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Lecture 8: Quasigeostrophy and Pseudo-potential vorticity
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Lecture 9: Quasi-geostrophic potential vorticity
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Lecture 10: An example of the application of “potential vorticity”
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Lecture 11: Boundary conditions
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Lecture 12: Eady edge waves
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Lecture 13: The superposition principle
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Lecture 14: The secondary circulation
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Lecture 15: Higher-order balance systems
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Lecture 16: Rossby waves
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Lecture 17: Quasi-geostrophic Rossby waves
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Lecture 18: Barotropic instability
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Lecture 19: Barotropic instability (cont.)
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Lecture 20: The Charney-Stern theorem
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