6. Global Environment

The goal thus far was to understand the flow of water and air in various forms and various contexts, and how pollutants are traced over the surface. In this lecture block we put this into a rotating frame, indeed a rotating planet. The deformation of fluids through the rotating frame and what this means for how heat, wind, water vectors move on the planet is the goal of this term.

• 6.1. Introduction
• 6.2. Equations of motion on the rotating earth
• 6.3. Scales of motion in the atmosphere and ocean
• 6.4. Structure and mean circulation of the atmosphere
• 6.5. Atmospheric heat transport
• 6.6. 2-box model for the global heat distribution
• 6.7. Stommel box model for ocean heat transport
• 6.8. Shallow wind-forced ocean circulation
• 6.9. Thermohaline Circulation