Education

a Coriolis tutorial was revised and expanded to five parts in early June 2022.  Now archived on MIT Open Course Ware as Topics in Fluid Dynamics.

• aCt Part 1: the Coriolis force, inertial and geostrophic motion,
• Part 2: a rotating shallow water model, potential vorticity  balance and geostrophic adjustment,
• Part 3: beta-effects; westward propagation,
• Part 4: wind-driven circulation and the Sverdrup relation,
• Part 5: wind-driven circulation of the Arabian Sea.
• aCt-2003:  the first (and perhaps most appealing) version of Part 1
• Lagrangian and Eulerian kinematics of fluid flow
• Dimensional analysis of models and data sets, Vers. 2024 - A2
• A published note on dimensional analysis (concise version of the above)
• Intro. to Observational Physical Oceanography, 12.808, syllabus for Fall 2009.
• Science and Communication, 12.757, syllabus, last offered in Spring 2005
• Proposal Writing Workshop, extended syllabus, offered most summers and winters
• WOCEbottles.zip, an interface between Matlab and WOCE bottle data
• Matlab and Fortran for Introduction to Physical Oceanography, 12.808