Postgraduate Course:

Waves in the Atmosphere and Oceans

12-16 December 2022, NWU, Potchefstroom

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This school was supported by a grant from the IMU-CDC Conference Support Program, which is partially supported by the Abel Board.

Program

The preliminary program for the course:

Monday 12 December
08:00-09:00	Registration
09:00-09:10	Opening by Louis Labuschagne (Research Director)
09:15-09:45	Talk on climate change and impact on Africa
09:45-10:00	Tea Break
10:00-12:00	Lecture 1: Equations of Motion: Rotation, vorticity, and shallow water approximation
12:00-14:00	Lunch
14:00-16:00	Lecture 2: Gravity waves, tsunamis, and wave kinematics
16:00-16:15	Tea break
16:15-17:00	Problem solving session

Tuesday 13 December
08:30-10:00	Lecture 3: Effect rotation and QG equations: Kelvin waves, Inertia-gravity waves, and Rossby waves
10:00-10:30	Tea break
10:30-12:30	Tutorial / Group work
12:30-14:00	Lunch
14:00-16:00	Lecture 4: Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability and the Richardson number
16:00-16:15	Tea break
16:15-17:00	Problem solving session

Wednesday 14 December
08:30-10:00	Lecture 5: Barotropic Instability
10:00-10:30	Tea break
10:30-12:30	Lecture 6: Inertial and baroclinic Instabilities
12:30-14:00	Lunch
14:00-15:00	Tutorial / Group work

Thursday 15 December
08:30-10:00	Lecture 7: Shallow and deep water waves and vertically propagating waves
10:00-10:30	Tea break
10:30-12:00	Tutorial / Group work
12:00-13:30	Lunch
13:30-16:00	Lecture 8: Equatorial trapped waves of Matsuno: Tropical waves and their impact on tropical climate dynamics
16:00-16:15	Tea break
16:15-17:00	Problem solving session

Friday 16 December
08:00-09:00	Oral presentations
09:00-10:00	Plenary talk by Prof Boualem Khouider
10:00-10:30	Participation certificates and closing