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12.820 Turbulence in the Ocean and Atmosphere | Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences

12.820 Turbulence in the Ocean and Atmosphere | Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences

This course presents the phenomena, theory, and modeling of turbulence in the Earth's oceans and atmosphere. The scope ranges from centimeter to planetary scale motions. The regimes of turbulence include homogeneous isotropic three dimensional turbulence, convection, quasi-geostrophic turbulence, shallow water turbulence, baroclinic turbulence, macroturbulence in the ocean and atmosphere.... Show More
Keywords:
homogeneous flows, atmosphere, boundary layers, Oceanography, Hydrodynamics, shear flows, Fluid Mechanics, and modeling of turbulence, convection, stably stratified flows, internal waves, geostrophic motions, Planetary Science, oceans, Atmospheric Science, fine structure, planetary scale motions, phenomena, theory
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Material Type:
Online Course
Date Added to MERLOT:
May 12, 2016
Date Modified in MERLOT:
May 12, 2016
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Barbra Bied Sperling
Hispanic Serving Institution
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Graduate School
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English
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