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Turbulence in the Ocean and Atmosphere

Subject: Science

Art: US Army, US Weather map from 1872, 1872 · Public domain

Instructors: Prof. Glenn Flierl, Prof. Raffaele Ferrari
Term: Spring 2006
Level: Graduate
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Turbulence in the Ocean and Atmosphere

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Lecture 1: Introduction ( PDF - 1.0 MB )

Lecture 2: Transition to turbulence ( PDF )

Lecture 3: Statistics and turbulence ( PDF )

Lecture 8: Atmospheric convection ( PDF - 2.0 MB ) (Courtesy of Prof. Kerry Emanuel. Used with permission.)

Lecture 9: 3D turbulence ( PDF )

Lecture 10: 3D turbulence and tracers ( PDF )

Lecture 11: Closure schemes for 3D turbulence ( PDF )

Lecture 12: Ocean turbulence

Lecture 13: Ocean turbulence (double diffusions)

Lecture 14: Two-dimensional turbulence ( PDF )

Lecture 17: Particle dispersion and drift ( PDF )

Lecture 18: Tracer turbulence ( PDF )

Lecture 19: Transformed Eulerian mean ( PDF )

Lecture 20: Mean-field approximation

Lecture 21: Active tracer transport ( PDF )

Lecture 22: Boundary layer turbulence ( PDF )