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  • Course Number / Code:
  • 12.82 (Spring 2006) 
  • Course Title:
  • Turbulence in the Ocean and Atmosphere 
  • Course Level:
  • Graduate 
  • Offered by :
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
    Massachusetts, United States  
  • Department:
  • Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences 
  • Course Instructor(s):
  • Prof. Raffaele Ferrari
    Prof. Glenn Flierl 
  • Course Introduction:
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  • 12.820 / 12.822 Turbulence in the Ocean and Atmosphere



    Spring 2006




    Course Highlights




    12.820 / 12.822 Turbulence in the Ocean and Atmosphere



    Spring 2006


    Examples of turbulent flows.
    Examples of turbulent flows at the surface of the sun, in the earth's atmosphere, in the Gulf Stream at the ocean surface, and in a volcanic eruption. (Images courtesy of NASA, NOAA and USGS.)


    Course Description


    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, boundary layer turbulence, internal waves, two dimensional turbulence, quasi-geostrophic turbulence, and macrotrubulence in the ocean and atmosphere.
     

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