AOS 201C
			    Spring 2017
                       Geophysical Turbulence
		           Jim McWilliams

This is an advanced graduate dynamics course offered in Spring, 2017.
Its contents are the following:

  Types of Atmospheric and Oceanic Turbulence 

  Some Good Turbulence Books

  Turbulent Flows: General Properties

  3D Homogeneous Turbulence

  2D Homogeneous Turbulence

  Shear Turbulence

  Convective Turbulence

  Stably Stratified Turbulence

  Planetary Boundary Layer Turbulence

  Geostrophic Turbulence

The format is twice weekly lectures at 12:30-2 on Tuesdays and
Thursdays in Mathematical Sciences Building 7121, based on written
lecture notes and other materials available at

http://web.atmos.ucla.edu/~jcm/turbulence_course_notes/

(with updates made as we go along).  The best way to participate is to
read the lecture notes ahead of time so that the class time can focus
on a combination of highlights of my choice and student questions or
comments.

There are no formal prerequisites although a good knowledge of fluid
dynamics is necessary.  The course is easy in that there is no
homework or exams, although classroom alertness is expected and there
is a term project with a written paper and class presentation.  The
course is hard in that its subject matter is the extensive, mature
literature on experimental results and conceptual frameworks for what
has been called the last important unsolved problem of classical
physics, as well as the unclaimed Clay Millennium Prize on proof or
disproof of the existence and smoothness of solutions of the
Navier-Stokes equations.  (This gives you a flavor of the course.)

I would prefer all students who do not need a grade for this course
for their graduation to take it S/U.  For those who need a grade, it
will be based on class participation and the term project paper and
presentation.