Fundamental Planetary Science
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1. 行星介绍
2. 太阳与其他恒星
3. 行星轨道
4. 行星空间环境
5. 行星大气成分
6. 行星温度
7. 大气与海洋运动
8. 行星表层
9. 行星内部结构
10. 系外行星
11. 其他天体
12. 行星宜居性
Planetary Physics
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Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Orbital Dynamics 轨道动力
Chapter 3: Energy & Energy Transport 能量与能量输送
Chapter 4: Planetary Atmospheres 行星大气
Chapter 5: Planetary Surfaces 行星表面
Chapter 6: Planetary Interiors 行星内部
Chapter 7: Magnetic fields 磁场
Chapter 8: Extrasolar Planets 系外行星
Chapter 9: Planetary formation 行星形成
Chapter 10: Astrobiology 天体生物学
Fundamental Planetary Science
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Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 3: Some background in physics and astrophysics
Chapter 4: Solar Heating and Energy Transport
Chapter 5: Planetary Atmospheres
Chapter 6: Surfaces and Interiors
Chapter 2: Orbital Dynamics
Chapter 7: Sun, Solar Wind and Magnetic Fields
Chapter 8: Giant Planets
Chapter 9: Terrestrial Planets and the Moon
Chapter 14: Extrasolar Planets
Chapter 16: Planets and Life
An Introduction to Planetary Sciences
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Lecture 01: Introduction
Lecture 02: Earth and the Moon
Lecture 03: Mercury, Venus, and Mars
Lecture 04: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune
Lecture 05: Field Investigation (two days)
Lecture 06: Stellar Heating and Energy Transport
Lecture 07: Planetary Atmospheres
Lecture 08: Planetary Surfaces
Lecture 09: Exoplanets I
Lecture 10: Exoplanets II
Lecture 11: Planetary Interiors
Lecture 12: Orbital Dynamics
Lecture 13: Planet Formation
Lecture 14: Titan, Moons, and Small Planets, or Vacation
Lecture 15: Oral presentations
Lecture 16: Planetary Habitability
Geophysical Fluid Dynamics (64 hours per semester, 2022)
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Lecture 00: Introduction (2 hrs)
Lecture 01: Fluid Fundamentals (2 hrs)
Lecture 02: Equations for a Rotating Planet (4 hrs)
Lecture 03: Dynamics on a Rotating Planet (2 hrs)
Lecture 04: Shallow water equations (4 hrs)
Lecture 05: Geostrophic theory (6 hrs)
Lecture 06: Rossby waves (4 hrs)
Lecture 07: Introduction of gravity waves (2 hrs)
Lecture 08: Instability (6-8 hrs)
Lecture 09: Waves and Mean-flows (6-8 hrs)
Lecture 10: The Hadley cell and the Tropical Circulation (6 hrs)
Lecture 11: Midlatitudes and the Stratosphere (4 hrs)
Lecture 12: Planetary Waves (5 hrs)
Lecture 13: Introduction of sea ice motion (2 hrs)
Lecture 14: A summary (2 hrs)
Final Examination
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Fluid Mechanics (48 hours per semester, 2016/2017/2018/2019/2020/2021/2022)
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Lecture notes for Spring 2022: Download link
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Cartesian Tensors
Chapter 3: Kinematics
Chapter 4: Conservation Laws
Midterm Examination
Chapter 5: Vorticity Dynamics
Chapter 6: Computational Fluid Dynamics
Chapter 7: Ideal Flow
Chapter 8: Gravity Waves
Final Examination
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Geophysical Fluid Dynamics (64 hours per semester, 2020/2021)
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Lecture 00: Introduction
Lecture 01: Fluid Fundamentals
Lecture 02: Equations for a Rotating Planet
Lecture 2.5: Vorticity and vortex dynamics
Lecture 03: Dynamics on a Rotating Planet
Lecture 04: Shallow water equations
Lecture 05: Geostrophic theory
Lecture 06: Rossby waves
Lecture 07: Gravity waves
Lecture 08: Instability
Lecture 09: Waves and Mean-flows
Lecture 10: Turbulence
Lecture 11: The Hadley cell and the Tropics
Lecture 12: Midlatitudes and the Stratosphere
Lecture 13: A summary
Final Examination
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Frontiers in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (32 hours per semester, 2017)