Course Identification

Title:

Advanced topics in mid-latitude dynamics

Code:

20252022

Lecturers and Teaching Assistants

Lecturers:

Dr. Rei Chemke

TA's:

Or Hess

Course Schedule and Location

Year:

2025

Semester:

Second Semester

When / Where:

Thursday, 14:15 - 16:00, WSoS, Rm B

Tutorials
Sunday, 13:15 - 15:00, WSoS, Rm 1

First Lecture:

27/03/2025

End date:

03/07/2025

Field of Study, Course Type and Credit Points

Chemical Sciences: Lecture; Elective; Regular; 3.00 points

Comments

On Thursday 08/05/2025 the course will take place in Science Teaching Lab 2

Prerequisites

Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics

Restrictions

Participants:

30

Language of Instruction

English

Attendance and participation

Obligatory

Grade Type

Numerical (out of 100)

Grade Breakdown (in %)

Assignments:

70%

Final:

30%

Evaluation Type

Examination

Scheduled date 1

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Scheduled date 2

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Estimated Weekly Independent Workload (in hours)

2

Syllabus

1. Barotropic instability: conditions and solutions

2. Quasi-geostrophic theory

3. Baroclinic instability: conditions, Rossby waves, Eady problem, stratified flow on a beta-plane

4. Quasi-geostrophic energetics: the Lorenz energy cycle]

5. Eddy-mean flow interactions: EP flux, group velocity, jet formation

6. Layered models for the mid-latitude flow

7. Turbulence: triad interactions, Kolmogorov 3D and 2D theories

8. Geostrophic turbulence: Rhines scales, barotropic and baroclinic modes

Learning Outcomes

Understand the physics underlying the formation of the mid-latitude flow

Reading List

Chapters 5-9 and 12 in Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid dynamics, G. Vallis, 2006, Cambridge Press

Website

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