Week 1 Introduction	Monday January 28 Scales of motion in the atmosphere and ocean.  Stratification. (classnotes, Rosen-Cushman #1.7) Intro ppt presentation	Wednesday January 30 Linearization of the equations of motion and simplifying assumptions (G#4.5, Benard Convection: movie* )	Friday February 1  Energy, hyperbolic partial differential equations (G#4.6-4.7, square drum: movie , round drum: movie )  Problem set #1 handed out
Week 2 Gravity waves -- no rotation or stratification (G#5)	Monday February 4 Derivations of shallow and deep water gravity waves (G#5.2)	Wednesday February 6 Particle motion, phase, and group velocity, short and long wave approximation, Energetics, adjustment under gravity. (G#5.3, 5.5, phase and group velocity: movie , Deep-water GW: movie , reflection: movie , refraction: movie ) simulation DWGW: movie	Friday February 8 seiches and tides in channels and gulfs (G#5.8)  Problem set #2 handed out
Week 3 Gravity waves with stratification, part I (G#6)	Monday February 11 Guest Lecturer Dr. Senya Grodsky (5-5330, senya@atmos.umd.edu) Derivation of a single equation for the interface variations in a two layer fluid, Rigid-lid and Boussinesq approximations (G#6.2-3).  Internal gravity waves radiated from storm fronts movie1 , movie2	Wednesday February 13 Guest Lecturer Dr. Senya Grodsky Derivation of a single equation for the vertical velocity in a continuously stratified fluid with f; Brunt-Vaisala Frequency; scale height; energetics (G#6.4-5) Energetics not on MIDTERMI	Friday February 15 Guest Lecturer Dr. Senya Grodsky Vertical propagation; Lee waves (G#6.8-9, simulation showing perpendicular phase and group velocity: movie.    Tank experiment showing Lee waves: avi movie . In the following note the change in propagation angle with period. Tank experiment with long period waves: a vi movie , tank experiment with short period waves: avi movie )  Problem set #3 handed out
Week 4 Gravity waves with stratification, part II (G#6)	Monday February 18 Adjustment in a stratified fluid; normal modes of the ocean (G#6.11-13, SGW in a square tank, no rotation: avi movie , SGW and Kelvin Waves in a rotating tank, rotation period 5 sec, wave period 2.1 sec: avi movie)	Wednesday February 20 Adjustment in a compressible fluid; Sound waves, Lamb wave,  anelastic approximation (G#6.14-15). Notes	Friday February 22 Kelvin Helmholtz instability (Rosen-Cushman #11.2-3 shear instability between two opposing layers: movie ,  instability of a buoyant plume: movie) KH instability not on MIDTERM I Problem set #4 handed out
Week 5 Gravity waves with stratification and rotation, part I (G#7-8)	Monday February 25 Adjustment to a geostrophic equilibrium (G#7.2-7.5) light water release. Notes simulated no rotation: movie , rotation: movie , lab, no rotation: movie-sideview , movie-topview rotation: movie-sideview , movie-topview	Wednesday February 27 Effect of rotation on surface gravity waves Dispersion and energetics of inertia gravity waves (PoincareWaves); (G#8.1-2) Energetics not on MIDTERMI Notes	Friday March 1 Inertial oscillations and instability; Tides; (G#9.39.8 observed internal tidal soliton in SAR(?) imagery: movie ) Notes Tides not on MidtermI Problem set #5 handed out
Week 6 Gravity waves with stratification and rotation, part II (G#8-9)	Monday March 4 Ray tracing and WKBJ approximation (G#8.12) notes	Wednesday March 6 Mountain waves; vertical propagation; Critical levels (G#8.8-9, observed lee waves: movie    Notes	Friday March 8 Midterm Examination I covering weeks 1-5 exam
Week 7 Forced and boundary motion (G#9-10)	Monday March 11 Kelvin-Helmholtz instability (this was a redo of 2-22) Notes	Wednesday March 13 Response to stationary forcing (G# 9.14-15) Simulated response to diabatic heating in midlatitudes: movie-side view , movie-top view (The blue arrows show geostrophic wind and the red ones the model wind)  Notes	Friday March 15 Poincare waves in a uniform channel; Coastal Kelvin waves; forced Kelvin Waves: storm surge (G#10.4, 10.9, simulated coastal Kelvin Waves: movie. SGW in a square tank, no rotation: avi movie , SGW and coastal Kelvin Waves in a rotating tank, rotation period 5 sec, wave period 2.1 sec: avi movie) Notes Problem set #6 handed out
Week 8 Forced Motion II (G#9-10)	Monday March 18 simulated Kelvin Wave: movie ) Notes	Wednesday March 20 Equatorial beta-plane; Potential vorticity for a shallow homogeneous layer; Equatorial Kelvin waves (G#11.3-5, simulation: movie     Notes	Friday March 22 Other equatorially trapped waves (G#11.6-8) Notes Problem set #7 handed out
Monday March 25 - Friday March 29 SPRING BREAK	-	-	-
Week 9 Tropical waves (G#11)	Monday April 1 Sub and supercritical flow in a 2-layer fluid (this lecture should have preceeded Kelvin-Helmholtz instability 2-22) Notes supercritical flow over bump animation: movie	Wednesday April 3 Forced motion; Yoshida jet; Equatorial Undercurrent Madden-Julian oscillations (G#11.12 and classnotes MJO: movie1 , particularly nice olr analysis showing projections onto KW, RW, RGW: movie2 ) Notes	Friday April 5 Forced steady motion in the tropics (G#11.15 and classnotes)  Notes Problem set #8 handed out
Week 10 Tropical interaction (several sources)	Monday April 8 Tropical atmospheric scaling, log pressure coordinates  (Holton #11.2-3 )  Notes	Wednesday April 10 Coupled instabilities and El Nino (Philander, 1986, observed SST: movie )  Notes	Friday April 12 Midlatitude scaling (Pedlosky#6.2 and course notes). Notes Problem set #9 handed out
Week 11 Midlatitude planetary waves (G#12)	Monday April 15 Guest lecture by Olivier Pauluis : more on MJO and a bit on 2-layer models	Wednesday April 17 Barotropic midlatitude Rossby Waves (G#12.2-12.3), reflections (G#12.9): movie Observed Rossby wave train and tropical convection: movie   Rossby waves in sea level: movie Baroclinic.  Notes	Friday April 19 Midterm examination II covering weeks 6-10 & KH-instability
Week 12 Geophysical Instabilities, part I (G#13)	Monday April 22 Q.G. potential vorticity.Vertical propagation of Rossby Waves (G#12.7-8) wave-induced mean flow as a model for QBO, rotating tank: movie Notes	Wednesday April 24 Barotropic instability (G#13.6, Pedlosky #7.3) Simulation: movie Notes	Friday April 26 Instability of a two layer system (Holton #8.2, Pedlosky #7.11) Notes Problem set #10 handed out
Week 13 Geophysical Instabilities, part II (G#13)	Monday April 29 Guest Lecture by Gennady Chepurin Vertical motion in baroclinic waves; waves in the presence of a horizontal temperature gradient (G#13.2).  Notes The Eady Problem (G#13.3, Eady waves: movie )	Wednesday May 1 Guest Lecture by Gennady Chepurin The Charney Problem (G#13.4)  Notes	Friday May 3 NO CLASS Simulated Gulf Stream: movie (G#13.5)
Week 14 Synoptic applications	Monday May 6 The life cycle of a midlatitude baroclinic disturbance (G#13.9, Bluestein, classnotes, Problem set #11 handed out http://weather.gov/	Wednesday May 8 More on midlatitude baroclinic disturbances. (Bluestein) Simulated two-dimensional turbulence: movie , Blizzard: movie	Friday May 10 Tropical baroclinic disturbances (Bluestein) Hurricane Fran: movie
Week 15 Review	Monday May 13 LAST CLASS Review & lunch	no class	Friday May 17, 2002 8-10am Final Examination covering weeks 1-14 Examsolution