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'Timour Radko's book ... describes the character and mathematical features of salt fingers and double-diffusive convection. These ideas are then immediately put into practice. The frequent use of oceanographic observations, laboratory data, and beautiful pictures provides the opportunity to present the ideas in a section on double-diffusive convection in an undergraduate or graduate course on physical oceanography.' Colin R. Meyer, Pure and Applied Geophysics

'The intimate connection between theory and data is a strength of this text ... The content of [the book] could be effectively communicated in a classroom. While it is best suited for advanced graduate students in fluid dynamics or physical oceanography, students in other related fields would certainly learn a lot from this text.' Colin R. Meyer, Pure and Applied Geophysics

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Timour Radko teaches courses in ocean dynamics, circulation analysis and wave motion at the Oceanography Department of the Naval Postgraduate School. Previously, he worked as a research scientist at the Department of the Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences (EAPS) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has been active in the area of double-diffusive convection for over fifteen years and was closely involved in developing the theory surrounding this topic. Dr Radko has authored numerous papers on physical oceanography and fluid mechanics, and has received the prestigious NSF CAREER award in 2006, the NPS Merit Award for Research in 2008, and the Schieffelin (2010) and Griffin (2011) Awards for Excellence in Teaching.

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