2007 Spring Geophysical Fluid Dynamics 2 Class term papers:

 

Group projects:

 

M1: Annika Jensen, Atul Kapur, Ivan Savelyev and Xue Zheng

“Potential Vorticity in the ocean”

 

M2: Emily Riley, Guy Cascella, Pedro Di Nezio and Xiaofang Zhu

Ekman Dynamics”

 

M3: Falko Judt, David Painemal, Lewis Gramer and Damianos Mantsis

“Potential Vorticity in the Atmophere

 

Personal projects:

 

Damianos Mantsis: “Barotropic Instability”

 

Atul Kapur: Eady’s Model”

 

Pedro Di Nezio: Baroclinic Instability: Charney Model”

 

Annika Hald Jensen: Baroclinic Topographic Rossby Waves”

 

Emily Riley: “Vertically Propagating Rossby Waves”

 

Xiaofang Zhu: “Wave-Zonal Flow Interactions Theorems: Charney-Drazin Theorem”

 

David Painemal: Eliassen-Palm Theory”

 

Xue Zheng: ‘Symmetric Instability”

 

Lew Gramer: “Kelvin-Helmholtz Instabilities”

 

Ivan Savelyev: “Extra-tropical Poincare and Kelvin Waves”

 

Falko Judt: “Equatorial Wave Theory”

 

Guy Cascella: “The Madden Julian Oscillation”