Richard Schopp's course in Large Scale Atmosphere Ocean Dynamics for Masters level 2 students at UBO:

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These four lectures are based losely on the two reviews on the mechanical energy budget of the World Ocean by Wunsch and Ferrari 2004 and Ferrari and Wunsch 2009. I recommend starting with the WF2004 paper first.

• Lesson 1: Tues Feb 15 The five main reservoirs of mechanical energy.
• Lesson 2: Thursday Feb 17. The five main reservoirs of mechanical energy continued.
• Lesson 2: Third lecture: Tuesday Feb 22. The maintanence of the main reservoirs. See Scott and Xu, 2009, and references therein.
• Lessons 3 & 4: Fourth lecture: Thursday Feb 24 de 16h25 a 17h40. Routes to dissipation: Inverse cascade, bottom friction, lee wave generation.