12.820 / 12.822 Turbulence in Geophysical Systems, Spring 2003

This course presents the phenomena, theory, and modeling of turbulence in the Earth's oceans and atmosphere. The scope ranges from the fine structure to planetary scale motions. The regimes of turbulence include homogeneous flows in two and three dimensions, geostrophic motions, shear flows, co...

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Main Authors: Ferrari, Raffaele, Flierl, Glenn R., Legg, Sonya
Language:en-US
Published: 2003
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/36358

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