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Atmospheric and Oceanic Modeling

Subjects: Mathematics · Science

Art: Claes Janszoon Vooght, Ca. 1680 celestial chart by Claes Jansz Vooght, circa 1680 · Public domain

Instructors: Prof. John Marshall, Prof. Kerry Emanuel, Dr. Alistair Adcroft
Term: Spring 2004
Level: Graduate
What's inside: 1 lecture note · 1 reading · 18 other files · 3 web pages
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Atmospheric and Oceanic Modeling

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Lecture 1: The Finite Difference Method

Lecture 2: Spatial Discretization and Numerical Dispersion

Lecture 3: Series Expansion Methods

Lecture 4: Series Expansion Methods (cont.)

Lecture 5: Time-stepping

Lecture 6: Time-stepping (cont.)

Lecture 7: Time-stepping (cont.) MATLAB® Script for P-N-Z Model

Lecture 8: Space-time

Lecture 9: Space-time (cont.)

Lecture 10: Two-dimensions

Lecture 11: Shallow Water Dynamics and Numerical Dispersion

Lecture 12: Barotropic Models

Lecture 13: Barotropic Models (cont.)

Lecture 14: Quasi-geostrophic Equations

Lecture 15: Quasi-geostrophic Models

Lecture 16: Quasi-geostrophic Models (cont.)

Lecture 17: Eddy Parameterization

Lecture 18: The Primitive Equations

Lecture 19: The Primitive Equations (cont.)

Lecture 20: Introduction to Turbulence, Reynolds Averaging, and Turbulence and Energy

Lecture 21: [Attend 12.820 for the lecture of] Boundary Layer Turbulence and Parameterizations

Lecture 22: Primitive Equations (cont.)

Lecture 23: Vertical Coordinates

Lecture 24: dfParameterizing Geostrophic Eddies

Lecture 25: Project Presentations

Lecture 26: Overview and Summary of GCM Issues