SIO 212B Geophysical Fluid Dynamics

  • SIO 212B Information The course prospectus and syllabus

  • Assignment 1 Stress and frictionally driven flows

  • Assignment 2 The lake problem revisited, upwelling, Sverdrup balance, QG energy conservation.

  • Assignment 3 Geostrophic scaling, Jacoboianology and QG energy conservation again, the geostrophic bubble.

  • Assignment 3 Circulation integrals, the geostrophic bubble revisited, Kelvin's theorem, pair separation in a turbulent flow.

  • Assignment 5 Weakly nonlinear wind-driven ocean circulation, the renovating Couette flow, lagrangian coordinate solution of the straining IVP.

  • Assignment 6 Advection-diffusion in oscillating shear flows, the Munk-Stommel boundary layer, the Prandtl-Batchelor theorem, the moment method.

  • Assignment 7 f/h contours and internal BLs, advection-diffusion in circular streamlines.

  • Assignment 8 Two-layer Rhines-Young model, closure of geostrophic contours by isopycnal displacements.

  • Final exam The final exam.