Overview
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.
Full Product Details
Author: Jan-Bert Flor
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
Imprint: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
Edition: 2010
Volume: 805
Dimensions:
Width: 15.50cm
, Height: 1.30cm
, Length: 23.50cm
Weight: 0.357kg
ISBN: 9783642115868
ISBN 10: 3642115861
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 09 June 2010
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
From the reviews: The book on 'Fronts, Waves and Vortices in Geophysical Flows' contains selected contributions from lecturers to the summer school which ... was held in Valsavarenche, Italy in June 2006. ... The texts of all lectures are written clearly and precisely, the figures are transparent and instructive ... . will interest lecturers of geophysical fluid dynamics courses as an excellent source of constructive and stimulating ideas. ... also of interest to graduate students and researchers working in ocean physics, atmosphere physics, fluid mechanics and applied mathematics. (Andrzej Icha, Pure and Applied Geophysics, Vol. 168, 2011)
From the reviews: The book on 'Fronts, Waves and Vortices in Geophysical Flows' contains selected contributions from lecturers to the summer school which ! was held in Valsavarenche, Italy in June 2006. ! The texts of all lectures are written clearly and precisely, the figures are transparent and instructive ! . will interest lecturers of geophysical fluid dynamics courses as an excellent source of constructive and stimulating ideas. ! also of interest to graduate students and researchers working in ocean physics, atmosphere physics, fluid mechanics and applied mathematics. (Andrzej Icha, Pure and Applied Geophysics, Vol. 168, 2011)
