Courses - Spring 2024
AOSC
Atmospheric and Oceanic Science
AOSC432
Dynamics of the Atmosphere and Ocean
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Prerequisite: AOSC431.
Corequisite: MATH246.
Credit only granted for: AOSC432 or AOSC632.
Formerly: METO432.
Equations of motion and their approximation, scale analysis for the atmosphere and the ocean. Conservation properties. Fluid motion in the atmosphere and oceans. Geostrophic/balanced and ageostrphic/unbalanced motion. Circulation, vorticity, and potential vorticity. Introduction to the boundary layer.
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University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA
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