Photo of an anticyclone (high pressure system) from the tank experiment on Ekman layers. (Photo by Prof. John Marshall.)
Instructor(s)
Prof. John Marshall
Dr. Lodovica Illari
MIT Course Number
12.307
As Taught In
Spring 2009
Level
Undergraduate
Course Description
Course Features
Course Description
Course 12.307 is an undergraduate course intended to illustrate, by means of 'hands on' projects, the basic dynamical and physical principles that govern the general circulation of the atmosphere and ocean and the day to day sequence of weather events. The course parallels the content of the new undergraduate textbook Atmosphere, Ocean and Climate Dynamics by John Marshall and R. Alan Plumb.