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Lecture course «Introduction to geophysical fluid dynamics»

About the lecturer

Pavel S. Berloff
Pavel Berloff

Professor at Imperial College London. Reader in Applied Mathematics.

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Geophysical Fluid Dynamics; Fluid Dynamics; Ocean Circulation and Modelling; Geophysical Turbulence and Waves; Oceanic Mesoscale Eddies; Parameterizations of Turbulent Processes; Transport and Mixing Processes in Fluids; Climate Dynamics; Ocean-Atmosphere Coupling; Stochastic Modelling; Nonlinear Dynamical Systems; Numerical Algorithms; Scientific Computing.

Publications

 

INTRODUCTION TO GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS

 

MC FAM presents a lecture course of the professor of the London Imperial College Pavel Berloff «Introduction to geophysical fluid dynamics» , which will be held from 11:00 to 13:30 on September 7, 9, 14, 16, 21, 23, 28 and 30, 2020.

The proposed lecture course is aimed at a wide audience of students, graduate students and postdocs specializing in geophysical mathematics, physics of the atmosphere and the ocean, hydrodynamics and mathematical modeling.

MAIN TOPICS FOR THE LECTURES COURSE

  • Introduction

  • Governing equations

  • Geostrophic dynamics

  • Quasigeostrophic theory

  • Ekman layer

  • Rossby waves

  • Linear instabilities

  • Ageostrophic motions

  • Transport phenomena

  • Nonlinear dynamics and wave-mean flow interactions

 

Event location: Moscow, ul. Gubkina, d. 8., room. 727

 

Registration for the course is free.

To register, fill out the online-form.

 

Contacts: Yuri Vassilevski