After completing GEOF339, students will be able to:
- derive the quasi-geostrophic equations and discuss barotropic and baroclinic Rossby wave solutions
- derive various solutions for the wind-driven ocean circulation, including upwelling and downwelling
- discuss simplified models of the buoyancy-driven ocean circulation
- derive and discuss QG integral constraints on barotropic and baroclinic instability
- solve the Eady/Phillips problems of baroclinic instability and discuss their applications and limitations
- derive fundamental scaling laws distinguishing 2D and 3D turbulence and discuss their relevance to real geophysical flows
- derive residual mean solutions for eddy-mean flow interactions and discuss their application to flows in the real ocean