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MIT12.003F02
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This undergraduate class is designed to introduce students to the physics that govern the circulation of the ocean and atmosphere. The focus of the course is on the processes that control the climate of the planet.AcknowledgmentsProf. Ferrari wishes to acknowledge that this course was originally designed and taught by Prof. John Marshall.
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MIT OpenCourseWare
Subjects
Characteristics of the atmosphere;Characteristics of the atmosphere;global energy balance;greenhouse effect;greenhouse gases;Atmospheric layers;pressure and density;Convection;adiabatic lapse rate;Humidity;Convective clouds;Temperature;Pressure and geopotential height;Winds;Fluids in motion;Hydrostatic balance;Incompressible flow;compressible flow;radial inflow;Geostrophic motion;Taylor-Proudman Theorem;Ekman layer;Coriolis force;Rossby number;Hadley circulation;ocean;seawater;salinity;geostrophic and hydrostatic balance;inhomogeneity;Abyssal circulation;thermohaline circulation
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