SO335
Quantitative Methods for Meteorology and Oceanography
Fall 2014
Instructor:
Assistant Professor Brad Barrett, Office: CH216, Phone: 3-6567
Email: bbarrett@usna.edu
Chapters refer to either course notes (on web site) or Pond & Pickard text
COURSE SCHEDULE
Week 1:
Aug 21:
Intro to Course
Atmospheric and Oceanic Variables, Units and Dimensions (Ch 1; P&P 1, 2)
Start Lab 1: Introduction to MATLAB
Week 2:
Aug 26:
Review of Vector Operations (Ch 2)
Aug 28:
Review of Vector Operations (Ch 2)
Assignment 1 due
Lab 1 due
Start Lab 2 - Graphing in MATLAB
Sep 2:
Partial Differential Operators (Ch 3)
Sep 4:
Partial Differential Operators (Ch 3)
Quiz 1
Sep 9:
Partial Differential Operators (Ch 3)
Assignment 2 due
Sep 11:
Material derivative and advection (Ch 4)
Lab 2 due
Start Lab 3 - Div, Grad and Curl
Sep 16:
Material derivative and advection (Ch 4)
Quiz 2
Assignment 3 due
Sep 18:
Material derivative and advection (Ch 4)
Sep 23:
Exam #1
Sep 25:
Streamlines, streamfunctions and velocity potential (Ch 5)
Lab 3 due
Start Lab 4 -Flow visualization
Sep 30:
Streamlines, streamfunctions and velocity potential (Ch 5)
Oct 2:
Taylor Series and Gauss’ Theorem (Ch 6)
Week 3:
Week 4:
Week 5:
Week 6:
Week 7:
Week 8:
Week 9:
Oct 7:
Taylor Series and Gauss’ Theorem (Ch 6)
Assignment 4 due
Oct 9:
Mass Continuity (Ch 7; P&P Ch. 4)
Quiz 3
Lab 4 due
Oct 14:
Mass Continuity (Ch 7; P&P Ch. 4)
Start Lab 5 – Conservation of mass
Oct 16:
Mass Continuity (Ch 7; P&P Ch. 4)
Week 10: Oct 21:
Navier Stokes Equation of Motion / Newton’s Second Law (Ch 8; P&P Ch 6)
Assignment 5 due
Oct 23:
Navier Stokes Equation of Motion / Newton’s Second Law (Ch 8; P&P Ch 6)
Quiz 4
Week 11: Oct 28:
Navier Stokes Equation of Motion / Newton’s Second Law (Ch 8; P&P Ch 6)
Lab 5 due
Oct 30:
Exam #2
Week 12: Nov 4:
Equations of motion in a rotating frame, Geostrophic flow (Ch 9; P&P Ch 6)
Nov 6:
Equations of motion in a rotating frame, Geostrophic flow (Ch 9; P&P Ch 6)
Nov 11:
Equations of motion in a rotating frame, Geostrophic flow (Ch 9; P&P Ch 6)
Nov 13:
Equations of motion in a rotating frame, Geostrophic flow (Ch 9; P&P Ch 6)
Start Lab 6 – Geostrophic and Gradient Winds due
Week13:
Week 14: Nov 18:
Polar coordinates and Gradient Wind (Ch 10; P&P Ch 8)
Assignment 6 due
Quiz 5
Nov 20:
Polar coordinates and Gradient Wind (Ch 10; P&P Ch 8)
MATLAB Quiz
Week 15: Nov 25:
Polar coordinates and Gradient Wind (Ch 10; P&P Ch 8)
Lab 6 due
Nov 27:
Week 16: Dec 2:
Dec 4:
Final Exam: TBD
(No class; Thanksgiving Holiday)
Statistics (Ch 11)
Statistics (Ch 11)
Course Wrap Up, Student Opinion Forms
Assignment 7 due