Welcome to the home page for 12.307, offered in the spring of 2013.
12.307 is an undergraduate Institute Laboratory Course intended to illustrate, by means of 'hands on' projects, the basic dynamical and physical principles that govern the general circulation of the atmosphere and ocean and the day to day sequence of weather events.
Real
time meteorological observations are studied together with
laboratory fluid experiments.
We meet Tuesday and Thursday 2.30 pm - 4.30 pm, in Room 54-1623 of the Green Building.
TA: Yavor Kostov
(office: 54-1515)
For course announcements and forum see accompanying
Stellar
website.
Comments from students and some of their reports can be
found in the Weather
in a Tank wiki
Here you can:
- access copies of the project descriptions
- read about laboratory experiments and the synoptic lab.
Development of this and related
courses has been generously supported by the
Division of Undergraduate
Education (DUE) of the National Science Foundation
- see
here - and an MIT alumni fund.
