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Turbulence in the Ocean and Atmosphere

12.820 · Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences · Graduate · Spring 2007

Prof. Glenn Flierl, Prof. Raffaele Ferrari

MIT · Tier 1

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.

Science & MathOcean EngineeringMechanical EngineeringEarth ScienceEngineering

The syllabus, on MIT OpenCourseWare

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Prof. Glenn Flierl, Prof. Raffaele Ferrari. 12.820 Turbulence in the Ocean and Atmosphere. Spring 2007. Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare, https://ocw.mit.edu. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.

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