Stanford School of Earth Sciences

Atmosphere, Ocean, and Climate Dynamics: the Ocean Circulation :: Lab
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Lab 1: Constraints imposed by rotation and stratification

Lab 2: Rigidity in a rotating fluid (Taylor-Proudman effect)

Lab 3: Ekman pumping and suction and vortex stretching

Lab 4: Wind-driven ocean gyres

Lab 5: Thermal-wind balance

Lab 6: Eddies in the ocean (baroclinic instability)

Lab 7: Abyssal circulation