5.3 Surface Gravity Waves
5.4 Dispersion
5.5 Short-Wave and Long-Wave Approximations
5.6 Shallow-Water Equations Derived Using the
Hydrostatic Approximation
5.7 Energetics of Shallow-Water Motion
5.8 Seiches and Tides in Channels and Gulfs
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Atmosphere-Ocean Dynamics
6. Adjustment under Gravity of a Density-Stratified
Fluid (pp 117-145)
6.1 Introduction
6.2 The Case of Two Superposed Fluids of Different
Density
6.3 The Baroclinic Mode and the Rigid Lid
Approximation
6.4 Adjustment within a Continuously Stratified
Incompressible Fluid
6.5 Internal Gravity Waves
6.6 Dispersion Effects
6.7 Energetics of Internal Waves
6.8 Internal Waves Generated at a Horizontal Boundary
Coordinate System, 361-365 in Wallace & Hobbs
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3. Properties of a fluid at rest (pp 39-41, 45-52)
3.1 The Equation of State
3.5 Balances of Forces in a Fluid at Rest
3.6 Static Stability
3.7 Quantities Associated with Stability (only 3.7.1)
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4. Equations Satisfied by a Moving Fluid (pp 63-70,
72-76, 83-85)
4.1 Properties of a Material Element
4.2 Mass conservation Equation
4.3 Balances of a Scalar Quantity like Salinity (plus some
repetition Gauss / Stokes)
4.5 The Equation of Motion (plus pages 365-371 in
Wallace and Hobbs, and something about Reynolds
stresses, Pond & Pickard pages 44-54)
4.8 Bernoulli’s Equation
4.9 Systematic Effects of Diffusion
4.10 Summary List of the Governing Eq.
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5. Adjustment under Gravity in a Nonrotating
Systems (pp 95-115)
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5.1 Introduction: Adjustment to Equilibrium
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5.2 Perturbations from the Rest State for a Homogeneous
Inviscid Fluid
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7. Effects of Rotation (pp 189-223)
7.1 Introduction
7.2 The Rossby Adjustment Problem (plus a more
detailed derivation of the potential vorticity for a
shallow homogeneous ocean, page 232)
7.3 The Transients
7.4 Applicability to a Rotating Earth
7.5 The Rossby Radius of Deformation
7.6 The Geostrophic Balance
7.7 Relative Geostrophic Currents: The Thermal Wind
(plus extra about the Gradient Wind, Wallace &
Hobbs 379-383)
7.8 Available Potential Energy (briefly mentioned)
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8. Gravity Waves in a Rotating Fluid (pp 247-262)
8.1 Introduction
8.2 Effect of Rotation on Surface Gravity Waves:
Poincare Waves
8.3 Dispersion Properties and Energetics of Poincare
Waves
8.4 Vertically Propagating Internal Waves in a Rotating
Fluid
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9. Forced Motion (pp 317-322, 326-332)
1 Introduction
9.1
9.2 Forcing Due to Surface Stress: Ekman Transport
9.4 Ekman Pumping
9.5 Bottom Friction: Velocity Structure of the Boundary
Layer
9.6 The Laminar Ekman Layer
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10. Effects of Side Boundaries (pp 378-380, 394-398,
403-415)
10.4 Kelvin Waves
10.9 Storm Surges on an Open Coastline: The Local
Solution
10.11 Coastal Upwelling
10.12 Continental Shelf Waves
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12. Mid-latitudes (pp 500-506)
12.3 Planetary Waves (with some introduction deriving
the wave equation)
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Tore Furevik 16 February 2016
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