Atmosphere and Ocean Dynamics
PhD course · Politecnico di Milano · November 2026
Prof. Pedro S. Peixoto (IME-USP; visiting professor at MOX, Politecnico di Milano).
This page: www.ime.usp.br/~pedrosp/courses/polimi-cgfd; mirror, if it is down: pedrospeixoto.github.io/polimi-cgfd.
Lectures
| # | Topic | Material | Notebooks |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | About the course; set-up and a short review | Slides · Notes | — |
| 1 | A historical overview of atmosphere and ocean dynamics | Slides · Notes | 01 |
| 2 | The equations of motion from basic principles | Slides · Notes | 02a · 02b · 02c |
| 3 | Reduced models: scales, balance and waves | Slides · Notes | 03a · 03b |
| 4 | The vertical slice: buoyancy, convection and mountain waves | Slides · Notes | 04a · 04b · 04c · 04d |
| 5 | Finite differences: time stepping, advection and the CFL condition | Slides · Notes | 05a · 05b · 05c |
| 6 | Finite volumes: conservation and the 2D shallow water equations | Slides · Notes | 06a · 06b · 06c |
| 7 | Spectral methods and the ECMWF model | Slides · Notes | 07a · 07b · 07c |
| 8 | Finite elements: from Galerkin to discontinuous Galerkin, with Firedrake | Slides · Notes | 08a · 08b · 08c · 08d · 08e |
| 9 | Modern weather, ocean and climate models | Slides · Notes | 09a |
| 10 | Data-driven weather forecasts: assimilation, reanalysis and AI models | Slides · Notes | 10a |