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Lecture Notes



Lecture Notes

Some lectures have additional material in the form of figures and movies referred to as graphics in the table below.

Note: Although the content will correspond directly, many of these graphics links lead to pages in the Spring 2007 version of this course, where lecture number may not correspond. Use the "back" button in your browser to return to this page when done.


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1Introduction (PDF - 1.0 MB) 
2Transition to turbulence (PDF) 
3Statistics and turbulence (PDF) 
4-7Convection (PDF)Page 5: planforms
Page 7: growth rate surfaces
Page 7: stability bndry
Page 9: lorenz eqns tau=0
Page 9: lorenz eqns tau=10
Page 11: mfa
Page 11: 2d
Page 12: rough surfaces
Page 13: finite amp
Page 14: surface convection
Page 15: thermals
Page 15: thermals in stratification
Page 16: plumes
Page 16: plumes in stratification
8Atmospheric convection (PDF - 2.0 MB) (Courtesy of Prof. Kerry Emanuel. Used with permission.) 
93D turbulence (PDF) 
103D turbulence and tracers (PDF) 
11Closure schemes for 3D turbulence (PDF) 
12Ocean turbulence 
13Ocean turbulence (double diffusions) 
14Two-dimensional turbulence (PDF)Page 2: 2d
Page 2: statistics
Page 2: averages
Page 3: mean k
Page 5: point vortex simulations
Page 7: vortex waves
Page 7: vortices in shear
Page 8: vortices in neighbor field
15-16QG turbulence (PDF)Page 4: means
Page 5: two vertical mode case
Page 6: example
Page 6: resonance
Page 7: resonance-angle
Page 7: resonance-modes
17Particle dispersion and drift (PDF) 
18Tracer turbulence (PDF)effective diffusivity in a channel

effective diffusivity in the troposphere and lower stratosphere
19Transformed Eulerian mean (PDF) 
20Mean-field approximation 
21Active tracer transport (PDF) 
22Boundary layer turbulence (PDF) 

 








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