Monday, January 7 -- What is GFD. Importance of rotation and stratification in geophysical flows.

Wednesday, January 9 -- Scale analysis and scales of motion. Time and spatial scales of flows dominated by rotation and stratification. (Suggested reading: Marshall & Plumb, Chap. 0)

Friday, January 11 -- Lagrangian and Eulerian time derivatives (Vallis 1.1; Holton 2.1). Continuity and momentum equation (Vallis 1.2 - 1.3; Marshall & Plumb 6.1 - 6.3)

Monday, January 14 -- Momentum equation. Hydrostatic balance for a fluid at rest (Vallis 1.3; Marshall & Plumb 6.1 - 6.3 and 3.2; Holton 1.6). Trajectiories and streamlines (Holton 3.3)

Wednesday, January 23 -- Equation of state. First law of thermodynamics. Specific heats (Vallis 1.4 - 1.5).

Friday, January 25 -- Specific heats and first law of thermodynamics for an ideal gas. Adiabatic processes and potential tempearture. Second law of thermodynamics and entropy (Vallis 1.6; Holton 2.7 ).

Monday, January 28 -- Static stability, dry adiabatic lapse rate, gravity waves (Vallis 2.9 ). Moisture and moist thermodynamic variables. Saturation vapor pressure and Clausius-Clapeyron relation (Marshall & Plumb 4.3 - 4.5)

Wednesday, January 30 -- Static stability in a saturated atmosphere. Saturated lapse rate. Equivalent potential temperature (Vallis 2.9.3; Marshall & Plumb 4.5)

Friday, February 1 -- Finite-amplitute instability. Equations of motions in a rotating reference frame. Centrifugal and Coriolis forces. (Vallis 2.1, 2.2.1.; Marshall & Plumb 6.6; Holton 1.5)