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Fronts, Waves and Vortices in Geophysical Flows

Author : Jan-Bert Flor
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 364211587X
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (421 download)

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Download or read book Fronts, Waves and Vortices in Geophysical Flows written by Jan-Bert Flor and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most well known structures in planetary atmospheres and the Earth’s oceans are jets or fronts interacting with vortices on a wide range of scales. The transition from one state to another, such as in unbalanced or adjustment flows, involves the generation of waves as well as the interaction of coherent structures with these waves. This book presents a fluid mechanics perspective to the dynamics of fronts and vortices and their interaction with waves in geophysical flows. It provides a basic physical background for modeling coherent structures in a geophysical context, and it gives essential information on advanced topics such as spontaneous wave emission and wavemomentum transfer in geophysical flows. Based on a set of lectures by leading specialists, this text is targeted at graduate students, researchers and engineers in geophysics and environmental fluid mechanics.

Fronts, Waves and Vortices in Geophysical Flows

Author : Jan-Bert Flor
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642115861
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (421 download)

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Download or read book Fronts, Waves and Vortices in Geophysical Flows written by Jan-Bert Flor and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-06-09 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most well known structures in planetary atmospheres and the Earth’s oceans are jets or fronts interacting with vortices on a wide range of scales. The transition from one state to another, such as in unbalanced or adjustment flows, involves the generation of waves as well as the interaction of coherent structures with these waves. This book presents a fluid mechanics perspective to the dynamics of fronts and vortices and their interaction with waves in geophysical flows. It provides a basic physical background for modeling coherent structures in a geophysical context, and it gives essential information on advanced topics such as spontaneous wave emission and wavemomentum transfer in geophysical flows. Based on a set of lectures by leading specialists, this text is targeted at graduate students, researchers and engineers in geophysics and environmental fluid mechanics.

Transport and Mixing in Geophysical Flows

Author : Jeffrey B. Weiss
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3540752145
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (47 download)

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Book Synopsis Transport and Mixing in Geophysical Flows by : Jeffrey B. Weiss

Download or read book Transport and Mixing in Geophysical Flows written by Jeffrey B. Weiss and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-12-07 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transports in fluids can be approached from two complementary perspectives. In the Eulerian view of mixing, the focus is on the concentration field. In the Langrangian view, fluid parcels are followed around as they move with the flow, experiencing chaotic or stochastic motion. This book examines both pictures, presenting a number of theoretical and experimental lectures on various aspects of transport and mixing of active and passive particles in geophysical flows.

Geophysical Waves and Flows

Author : David E. Loper
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107186196
Total Pages : 521 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Geophysical Waves and Flows written by David E. Loper and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-26 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a unified presentation of waves and flows occurring in the atmosphere, oceans, rivers, volcanoes and the mantle, for graduate students and researchers.

Lectures on Geophysical Fluid Dynamics

Author : Rick Salmon
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195108086
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book Lectures on Geophysical Fluid Dynamics written by Rick Salmon and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1998-05-21 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lectures on Geophysical Fluid Dynamics offers an introduction to several topics in theoretical geophysical fluid dynamics, including the theory of large-scale ocean circulation, geostrophic turbulence, and Hamiltonian fluid dynamics. The book is based on an introductory course in dynamical oceanography offered to first-year graduate students at Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Each chapter is a self-contained introduction ti its particular subject, and makes few specific references to other chapters. Chapters 1 examines the relationship between the molecular and continuum models of the fluid, and between the Eulerian and Lagrangian descriptions of the latter. Ch.2 is a broad introduction to the fluid dynamics of rotating, stratified flows. Ch.3 adddresses large-scale ocean circulation. Chs.4,5 and 6 discuss the theory of turbulence, including elementary ideas based on vorticity laws (Ch.4), statistical turbulence theory (Ch.5), and the applications of these ideas to quasigeostrophic flows in the Earth's oceans and atmosphere (Ch.6). Ch.7 surveys Hamiltonoian fluid dynamics, including the interaction between waves and currents, and "balanced" approximations to nearly geostrophic flow. Overall, the emphasis is on physical ideas rather than mathematical techniques. Readers are assumed to have had an elementary introduction to fluid mechanics, to know advanced calculus through partial differential equations, and to be familiar with the elementary ideas about linear waves, including the concept of group velocity.

Introduction to Geophysical Fluid Dynamics

Author : Benoit Cushman-Roisin
Publisher : Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 0080916783
Total Pages : 875 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (89 download)

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Book Synopsis Introduction to Geophysical Fluid Dynamics by : Benoit Cushman-Roisin

Download or read book Introduction to Geophysical Fluid Dynamics written by Benoit Cushman-Roisin and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2011-08-26 with total page 875 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an introductory-level exploration of geophysical fluid dynamics (GFD), the principles governing air and water flows on large terrestrial scales. Physical principles are illustrated with the aid of the simplest existing models, and the computer methods are shown in juxtaposition with the equations to which they apply. It explores contemporary topics of climate dynamics and equatorial dynamics, including the Greenhouse Effect, global warming, and the El Nino Southern Oscillation. Combines both physical and numerical aspects of geophysical fluid dynamics into a single affordable volume Explores contemporary topics such as the Greenhouse Effect, global warming and the El Nino Southern Oscillation Biographical and historical notes at the ends of chapters trace the intellectual development of the field Recipient of the 2010 Wernaers Prize, awarded each year by the National Fund for Scientific Research of Belgium (FNR-FNRS).

Energy Transfers in Atmosphere and Ocean

Author : Carsten Eden
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030057046
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Energy Transfers in Atmosphere and Ocean written by Carsten Eden and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-01-23 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes a recent effort combining interdisciplinary expertise within the Collaborative Research Centre “Energy transfers in atmosphere and ocean” (TRR-181), which was funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). Energy transfers between the three dynamical regimes – small-scale turbulence, internal gravity waves and geostrophically balanced motion – are fundamental to the energy cycle of both the atmosphere and the ocean. Nonetheless, they remain poorly understood and quantified, and have yet to be adequately represented in today’s climate models. Since interactions between the dynamical regimes ultimately link the smallest scales to the largest ones through a range of complex processes, understanding these interactions is essential to constructing atmosphere and ocean models and to predicting the future climate. To this end, TRR 181 combines expertise in applied mathematics, meteorology, and physical oceanography. This book provides an overview of representative specific topics addressed by TRR 181, ranging from - a review of a coherent hierarchy of models using consistent scaling and approximations, and revealing the underlying Hamiltonian structure - a systematic derivation and implementation of stochastic and backscatter parameterisations - an exploration of the dissipation of large-scale mean or eddying balanced flow and ocean eddy parameterisations; and - a study on gravity wave breaking and mixing, the interaction of waves with the mean flow and stratification, wave-wave interactions and gravity wave parameterisations to topics of a more numerical nature such as the spurious mixing and dissipation of advection schemes, and direct numerical simulations of surface waves at the air-sea interface. In TRR 181, the process-oriented topics presented here are complemented by an operationally oriented synthesis focusing on two climate models currently being developed in Germany. In this way, the goal of TRR 181 is to help reduce the biases in and increase the accuracy of atmosphere and ocean models, and ultimately to improve climate models and climate predictions.

Waves and Mean Flows

Author : Oliver Bühler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107783216
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Waves and Mean Flows written by Oliver Bühler and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-03-06 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interactions between waves and mean flows play a crucial role in understanding the long-term aspects of atmospheric and oceanographic modelling. Indeed, our ability to predict climate change hinges on our ability to model waves accurately. This book gives a modern account of the nonlinear interactions between waves and mean flows, such as shear flows and vortices. A detailed account of the theory of linear dispersive waves in moving media is followed by a thorough introduction to classical wave-mean interaction theory. The author then extends the scope of the classical theory and lifts its restriction to zonally symmetric mean flows. It can be used as a fundamental reference, a course text, or by geophysicists and physicists needing a first introduction. This second edition includes brand new material, including a section on Langmuir circulations and the Craik–Leibovich instability. The author has also added exercises to aid students' learning.

Geophysical Fluid Dynamics

Author : Joseph Pedlosky
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461246504
Total Pages : 723 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (612 download)

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Download or read book Geophysical Fluid Dynamics written by Joseph Pedlosky and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-12-01 with total page 723 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second edition of the widely acclaimed Geophysical Fluid Dynamics by Joseph Pedlosky offers the reader a high-level, unified treatment of the theory of the dynamics of large-scale motions of the oceans and atmosphere. Revised and updated, it includes expanded discussions of * the fundamentals of geostrophic turbulence * the theory of wave-mean flow interaction * thermocline theory * finite amplitude barocline instability.

Fundamentals of Geophysical Fluid Dynamics

Author : James C. McWilliams
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 052185637X
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)

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Book Synopsis Fundamentals of Geophysical Fluid Dynamics by : James C. McWilliams

Download or read book Fundamentals of Geophysical Fluid Dynamics written by James C. McWilliams and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-07-20 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intermediate/advanced textbook which provides concise and accessible introduction to GFD for broad range of students.

Ocean Surface Waves

Author : Stanislaw R. Massel
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9814460125
Total Pages : 690 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (144 download)

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Download or read book Ocean Surface Waves written by Stanislaw R. Massel and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2013 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book contains a comprehensive study on surface ocean waves induced by wind, earthquakes, and possibly landslides and asteroids impacts. Basic mathematical principles, physical description of the observed phenomena, practical forecasting techniques of the various wave parameters and extended application in ocean and coastal engineering, are discussed from the stochastic point of view. New topics include wave breaking mechanisms in deep- and shallow water, and freak waves.

Handbook of Environmental Fluid Dynamics, Two-Volume Set

Author : Harindra Joseph Fernando
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1466591145
Total Pages : 1222 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (665 download)

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Book Synopsis Handbook of Environmental Fluid Dynamics, Two-Volume Set by : Harindra Joseph Fernando

Download or read book Handbook of Environmental Fluid Dynamics, Two-Volume Set written by Harindra Joseph Fernando and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2012-12-11 with total page 1222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With major implications for applied physics, engineering, and the natural and social sciences, the rapidly growing area of environmental fluid dynamics focuses on the interactions of human activities, environment, and fluid motion. A landmark for the field, this two-volume Handbook of Environmental Fluid Dynamics presents the basic principles, fund

Instability in Geophysical Flows

Author : William D. Smyth
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108703011
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (87 download)

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Book Synopsis Instability in Geophysical Flows by : William D. Smyth

Download or read book Instability in Geophysical Flows written by William D. Smyth and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-11 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Open Access overview of physical processes that generate instability in geophysical flows, emphasising numerical methods and simple rules to predict instability.

Decolonising Governance

Author : Paul Carter
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351213016
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (512 download)

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Download or read book Decolonising Governance written by Paul Carter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-09-28 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Power may be globalized, but Westphalian notions of sovereignty continue to determine political and legal arrangements domestically and internationally: global issues - the legacy of colonialism expressed in continuing human displacement and environmental destruction - are thus treated ‘parochially’ and ineffectually. Not designed for dealing with situations of interdependence, democratic institutions find themselves in crisis. Reform in this case is not simply operational but conceptual: political relationships need to be drawn differently; the cultural illiteracy that prevents the local knowledge invested in places made after their stories needs to be recognised as a major obstacle to decolonising governance. Archipelagic thinking refers to neglected dimensions of the earth’s human geography but also to a geo-politics of relationality, where governance is understood performatively as the continuous establishment of exchange rates. Insisting on the poetic literacy that must inform a decolonising politics, Carter suggests a way out of the incommensurability impasse that dogs assertions of indigenous sovereignty. Discussing bicultural areal management strategies located in south-west Victoria, Maluco (Indonesia) and inter-regionally across the Arafura and Timor Seas, Carter argues for the existence of creative regions constituted archipelagically that can intervene to rewrite the theory and practice of decolonisation. A book of great stylistic elegance and deftness of analysis, Decolonising Governance is an important intervention in the related fields of ecological, ecocritical and environmental humanities. Methodologically innovative in its foregrounding of relationality as the nexus between poetics and politics, it will also be of great interest to scholars in a range of areas, including communicational praxis, land/sea biodiversity design, bicultural resource management, and the constitution of post-Westphalian regional jurisdictions.

Handbook of Environmental Fluid Dynamics, Volume One

Author : Harindra Joseph Fernando
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1439816697
Total Pages : 638 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (398 download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Environmental Fluid Dynamics, Volume One written by Harindra Joseph Fernando and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2012-12-12 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With major implications for applied physics, engineering, and the natural and social sciences, the rapidly growing area of environmental fluid dynamics focuses on the interactions of human activities, environment, and fluid motion. A landmark for the field, the two-volume Handbook of Environmental Fluid Dynamics presents the basic principles, fundamental flow processes, modeling techniques, and measurement methods used in the study of environmental motions. It also offers critical discussions of environmental sustainability related to engineering. The handbook features 81 chapters written by 135 renowned researchers from around the world. Covering environmental, policy, biological, and chemical aspects, it tackles important cross-disciplinary topics such as sustainability, ecology, pollution, micrometeorology, and limnology. Volume One: Overview and Fundamentals provides a comprehensive overview of the basic principles. It starts with general topics that emphasize the relevance of environmental fluid dynamics research in society, public policy, infrastructure, quality of life, security, and the law. It then discusses established and emerging focus areas. The volume also examines the sub-mesoscale flow processes and phenomena that form the building blocks of environmental motions, with emphasis on turbulent motions and their role in heat, momentum, and species transport. As communities face existential challenges posed by climate change, rapid urbanization, and scarcity of water and energy, the study of environmental fluid dynamics becomes increasingly relevant. This volume is a valuable resource for students, researchers, and policymakers working to better understand the fundamentals of environmental motions and how they affect and are influenced by anthropogenic activities. See also Handbook of Environmental Fluid Dynamics, Two-Volume Set and Volume Two: Systems, Pollution, Modeling, and Measurements.

Remote Sensing of Turbulence

Author : Victor Raizer
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 100045875X
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Remote Sensing of Turbulence written by Victor Raizer and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2021-10-03 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a unique multidisciplinary integration of the physics of turbulence and remote sensing technology. Remote Sensing of Turbulence provides a new vision on the research of turbulence and summarizes the current and future challenges of monitoring turbulence remotely. The book emphasizes sophisticated geophysical applications, detection, and recognition of complex turbulent flows in oceans and the atmosphere. Through several techniques based on microwave and optical/IR observations, the text explores the technological capabilities and tools for the detection of turbulence, their signatures, and variability. FEATURES Covers the fundamental aspects of turbulence problems with a broad geophysical scope for a wide audience of readers Provides a complete description of remote-sensing capabilities for observing turbulence in the earth’s environment Establishes the state-of-the-art remote-sensing techniques and methods of data analysis for turbulence detection Investigates and evaluates turbulence detection signatures, their properties, and variability Provides cutting-edge remote-sensing applications for space-based monitoring and forecasts of turbulence in oceans and the atmosphere This book is a great resource for applied physicists, the professional remote sensing community, ecologists, geophysicists, and earth scientists.

Wave Packets and Their Bifurcations in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics

Author : Huijun Yang
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1475743815
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (757 download)

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Download or read book Wave Packets and Their Bifurcations in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics written by Huijun Yang and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-29 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The material in this book is based predominantly on my recent work. It is the first monograph on the subject, though some support material may overlap other monographs. The investigation of wave packets and their bi furcations is very interesting, and useful theoretically and in practice, not only in geophysical fluid dynamics, which is the field to which the theory is being applied here, but also in other fields in mathematics and the natural sciences. I hope that the applied mathematician will find reading this book worthwhile, especially the material on the behavior of highly nonlinear dy namic systems. However, it is my belief that applying the concepts and methods developed here to other fields will be both interesting and con structive, since there are numerous phenomena in other areas of physics that share the characteristics of those in geophysical fluid dynamics. The theory developed here provides an effective tool to investigate the structure and the structural changes of dynamic systems in physics. Applications of the theory in geophysical fluid dynamics are an example of its usefulness and effectiveness. Some of the results presented here give us more insight into the nature of geophysical fluids. Moreover, the material is presented systematically and developmentally. Necessary basic knowledge is provided to make the book more readable for graduate students and researchers in such fields as applied mathematics, geophysical fluid dynamics, atmospheric sciences, and physical oceanogra phy.