Joseph Pedlosky

Geophysical Fluid Dynamics

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Geophysical Fluid Dynamics offers the reader a high- level, unified treatment of the theory of the dynamics of large-scale motions of the oceans and atmosphere. It includes discussions of - the fundamentals of geostrophic turbulence; - the theory of wave-mean flow interactions; - thermocline theory; - finite amplitude barocline instability.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer, Berlin
• 2. Aufl.
• Seitenzahl: 728
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Januar 1990
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 155mm x 39mm
• Gewicht: 1006g
• ISBN-13: 9783540963875
• ISBN-10: 3540963871
• Artikelnr.: 22025859

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Preliminaries.- Fundamentals.- Inviscid Shallow-Water Theory.- Friction and Viscous Flow.- Homogeneous Models of the Wind-Driven Oceanic Circulation.- Quasigeostrophic Motion of a Stratified Fluid on a Sphere.- Instability Theory.- Ageostrophic Motion.- Selected Bibliography.- Index.

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From the reviews

"The author has done a masterful job in presenting the theory with the necessary mathematical foundation, while keeping the physical aspects in clear view ... it is an outstanding introduction to a complex and important subject." -- GEOPHYSICS