FALL 2011
ASEN 5053, Rocket and Spacecraft Propulsion, Course Syllabus
ATOC 5600-001: Physics and Chemistry of Clouds and Aerosols
Tuesdays/Thursdays from 2:00pm-315pm in DUAN D318 Dr. Brian Toon (brian.toon@lasp.colorado.edu)
Topics covered: microphysics, chemistry, radiation, dynamics as applied to stratospheric and tropospheric aerosols, polar stratospheric clouds, cirrus, stratus and cumulus clouds, clouds and climate, direct and indirect effects of aerosols on climate clouds, aerosols and chemistry, global ozone loss, planetary clouds and climates, remote sensing
ATOC 5051: Dynamics of Oceans in fall 2011
I'd like you to consider taking or recommending ATOC5061: Dynamics of Oceans in Fall 2011 on Mondays/Wednesdays/Fridays from 1200pm to 1250pm. This class is now part of the Oceanography core curriculum, but as this program is still small I encourage it as an elective for other students with an interest in geophysical fluids in ATOC and other departments. The atmosphere-track students who took it last year found that it helped them with their dynamics (and their dynamics COMPs question, too). Fluid engineering students have also found it valuable.
There are a few recent changes to the course description, which is
now: Explores theories of the large-scale ocean, including quasigeostrophic, planetary geostrophic, and shallow water equations.
Topics may vary to focus on ocean climate (e.g. thermocline, westward intensification), ocean waves (e.g. gravity, Rossby, and Kelvin), or ocean models (toy, analytic, and numerical). Maybe repeated up to 9 total credit hours. Prereqs., ATOC 5400 and ATOC 5051 or 5060 or equivalent.
In Fall 2009, we focused mainly on ocean models, doing some hands-on numerical modeling of simple models, waves, and shallow water equations, as well as discussing toy and analytic models. In fall
2010 we focused more on ocean waves, instabilities, eddies, and wave- mean interaction in an oceanic context, and used some simple
numerical models to illustrate. I am interested to hear from
students as to what the Fall 2011 course focus should be; preliminary suggestions are for ocean turbulence from the microscale to the mesoscale.. This course has ordinary problem sets, take-home exams, and uses my notes, Vallis, and Cushman-Roisin and Beckers as the main texts.
This class *can be repeated* for credit. Auditors are welcome, but *please get Laurie to sign you up officially as an auditor* so you can access CULearn and so that your participation counts. You cannot sign up for auditor status reliably yourself.
Thanks,
-Baylor Fox-Kemper