12.803

 

Quasi-balanced Circulations in Oceans and Atmospheres

 

Fall 2008

 

 

 

Instructor:                               Kerry Emanuel

Room 54-1620

ext. 3-2462

emanuel@texmex.mit.edu

 

 

TA:                                          To Be Announced

                                               

 

Laboratory Instructor:             Lodovica Illari

(12.804)                                   Room 54-1612

ext. 3-2286

illari@halo.mit.edu

 

Course web site:                      http://wind.mit.edu/~emanuel/quasibalanced/course_home.htm

 

Recommended texts:               Geophysical Fluid Dynamics

Joseph Pedlosky

Springer-Verlag, 1974

 

 

Atmosphere-Ocean Dynamics

Adrian Gill

Academic Press, 1982