Subject Code: ME6L166
Prerequisites: None		 Geophysical Fluid Dynamics L – T – P : 3 –0 – 0 Credits: 3
Introduction to geophysical fluid dynamics – rotation & stratification. Coriolis force. Equations of fluid motion (bulk flow & budgets, governing equations). Diffusion & transport process in oceans & atmosphere.  Geostrophic flows &vorticity Dynamics. Ekman layer, barotropic waves & instability. Stratification & its effects, internal waves. Turbulence in stratified fluids. Introduction to stratified rotating flows – Quasi-Geostrophic dynamics, instabilities & geostrophic turbulence.
Recommended Books:
  1. Atmosphere-Ocean Dynamics, Adrian Gill, Academic Press, (1982).
  2. Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics, GeoffreyVallis, Cambridge University Press, (2006).
  3. An Introduction to Dynamical Meteorology, James Holton, 4th Ed., Academic Press, (2004).
  4. Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, Joseph Pedlosky,SpringerVerlag.
  5. Lectures on Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, Rick Salmon, Oxford University Press.
  6. Introduction to Circulating Atmospheres, Ian James, Cambridge University Press, (1994).
  7. Waves in Fluids, James Lighthill, Cambridge University Press, (1978).