Marine Turbulence

Theories, Observations, and Models
Herausgeber: Baumert, Helmut Z.; Sundermann, Jurgen; Simpson, John

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Produktbeschreibung

This book gives a comprehensive overview of marine turbulence and mixing for students, scientists, engineers.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 654
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. August 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 297mm x 210mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 1669g
• ISBN-13: 9780521153720
• ISBN-10: 0521153727
• Artikelnr.: 33158354

Inhaltsangabe

List of contributors
Foreword
Preface
Joel H. Ferviger - Obituary
Part I. On the Physics of Turbulence
1. Prologue
2. Turbulence: its origins and structure
3. A novel two-equation turbulence closure for high Reynolds numbers: homogenous stratified shear layers
4. A novel two-equation turbulence closure for high Reynolds numbers: spatially non-uniform turbulence
5. on some analogies between high-Reynolds-number turbulence and a vortex gas for a simple flow configuration
6. A spectral-closure model for turbulent flows with stable stratification
7. Intermittency
8. Horizontal mixing processes
9. Epilogue
Part II. Observational Methods
10. Prologue
11. Horizontal and vertical turbulence profilers
12. Microstructure sensors
13. Optical sensors
14. Dissipation measurement: theory
15. Acoustic Doppler techniques
16. Validation of microstructure-based diffusivity estimates using tracers in lakes and oceans
17. Other methods and approaches
18. Epilogue
Part III. Numerical and Computational Methods
19. Prologue
20. Direct and large-eddy simulation of turbulence
21. Marine-turbulence modeling using data assimilation
22. A generic transport equation for the length scale in turbulent flows
23. Some numerical aspects of turbulence-closure models
24. How to do random walk right in eddy-viscosity models
25. The GOTM modeling system
26. Coupling of the GOTM turbulence module to some three-dimensional ocean models
27. Epilogue
Part IV. Boundary Layers
28. Prologue
29. The surface mixed layer: an overview
30. The near-surface boundary layer
31. Modeling turbulence generation by breaking waves
32. Langmuir circulation
33. Near-bottom boundary layers
34. Equatorial turbulence
35. The effect of rotation on convective boundary-layer turbulence
36. Epilogue
Part V. Estuaries, Fjords, and Lakes: 37. Prologue
38. Turbulence in a swift tidal channel with weak stratification
39. Partially mixed estuaries: the Hudson River
40. Turbulence measurements in highly stratified estuaries
41. Turbulence measurements in fjords
42. Turbulence and mixing regimes specific to lakes
43. Epilogue
Part VI. Shelf Seas and the Shelf Edge: 44. Prologue
45. The near-shore region
46. The four shelf-sea regimes
47. The doubly stratified regime: turbulence closures for an OGCM of the Baltic Sea
48. The shelf edge: internal waves
49. Epilogue
Part VII. Large-Scale Processes
50. Prologue
51. Routes to dissipation in the ocean: the two-dimensional/three-dimensional turbulence conundrum
52. From mixing to geostrophy: geostrophic turbulence in atmospheres, oceans, and the laboratory
53. Geostrophic eddies: an overview of their effects and parameterizations in ocean models
54. Vortex dynamics and turbulent lateral heat transport
55. Subgrid- and supergird-scale parameterization of turbulence in quasi-two-dimensional barotropic flows and phenomenon of negative viscosity
Energy spectra and zonal flows on the ß-plane, on a rotating sphere, and on giant planets
57. Vortex dynamics and ß-plane turbulence
58. On the role of eddy mixing in the transport of zonal ocean currents
59. Passive scalars in two-dimensional and quasi-geostrophic turbulence
60. Epilogue
Part VIII. The CD-ROM: Data Sets and Numerical Codes: 61. Prologue
62. Model codes
63. Data sets
64. Epilogue
References.