NERC NATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL IN 
GEOPHYSICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL FLUID DYNAMICS

Computer Demonstration Notes

prepared by L.D. Boyce, C.J. Cooper, D.W.A. Franklin, P.H. Haynes, D.M. Ingram and M.E. McIntyre.

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0: General Introduction
1: Irrotational coffee
2: Advection-diffusion
3: Random straining
4: Chaotic advection
5: Point vortices (unbounded, semi-infinite and periodic domains)
6: The Kida vortex
7: Vorticity contour - (a) patch, (b) strip.
8: Vorticity contour - strip with sinusoidal displacements
9: Shear flow instability
10: Rossby adjustment
11: Stratified shear flow instability
12: Linear Rossby wave propagation
13: Wind forced ocean currents
14: The Eliassen problem on the -plane
15: Axisymmetric potential vorticity inversion
16: Ellipsoidal vortex
17: Height-longitude Rossby wave dispersion
18: The equatorial QBO
Copyright
This notes are a guide to software that has been produced at University of Cambridge Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics for the annual summer school in Geophysical and Environmental Fluid Dynamics (sponsored by the UK Natural Environment Research Council).
Copyright on software and notes is held by University of Cambridge.

Peter Haynes (phh@damtp.cam.ac.uk)
December 2001