Atmosphere, Ocean and Climate Dynamics
MIT OpenCourseWare offers this undergraduate physics course on what drives the circulation of the ocean and atmosphere and how those processes set the planet's climate. Developed by Professor John Marshall and taught here by Professor Raffaele Ferrari, the course works through topics such as atmospheric and oceanic general circulation, radiative balance, and the coupling between ocean and atmosphere that produces phenomena like El Nino. Materials include lecture notes, problem sets, and exam materials from an actual MIT course offering, letting learners follow the same sequence of topics assigned to MIT students. There is no instructor interaction or certificate, since OCW simply publishes the course materials for self-study, but the full syllabus and assignments give a genuine undergraduate-level grounding in the physics of climate dynamics.