Notes

This page has some various notes from coursework completed here at Courant, and may be useful to others preparing for oral exams, etc. There may be typos or errors.

• Advanced calculus
• Fluid dynamics
• Ocean dynamics
• Climate change
• Numerics I
• Partial differential equations

Other recommended materials, many of which were sources for these notes:

• Fluids: Cerfon’s lecture notes
• PDE: Tabak’s lecture notes
• Climate change: Marshall and Plumb Atmosphere Ocean and Climate Dynamics, chapters 1-4.
• Ocean/Atmosphere: Vallis “Essentials” - smaller, more concise version of the big Vallis book.