12.820 / 12.822 Turbulence in the Ocean and Atmosphere, Spring 2005


Lecture Notes


Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: A statistical description of turbulence

Lecture 3: 3-D turbulence

Lecture 4a: Convection (PS)

Lecture 4b: Convection part 2 (PS)

Lecture 5a: Ocean microstructure

Lecture 5b: Double diffusive convection

Lecture 6: Nonlinear waves

Lecture 6a: Generation of solitary waves

Lecture 7: Particle motions

Lecture 8: Tracer turbulence

Lecture 9: Cellular flows

Lecture 10: Transformed Eulerian Mean

Lecture 11: Atmospheric Convection

Lecture 12: Two-D turbulence

Lecture 13: QG turbulence

Lecture 14: Baroclinic instability

Lecture 15: Boundary Layer Turbulence