Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics: Fundamentals and Large-scale CirculationFluid dynamics is fundamental to our understanding of the atmosphere and oceans. Although many of the same principles of fluid dynamics apply to both the atmosphere and oceans, textbooks tend to concentrate on the atmosphere, the ocean, or the theory of geophysical fluid dynamics (GFD). This textbook provides a comprehensive unified treatment of atmospheric and oceanic fluid dynamics. The book introduces the fundamentals of geophysical fluid dynamics, including rotation and stratification, vorticity and potential vorticity, and scaling and approximations. It discusses baroclinic and barotropic instabilities, wave-mean flow interactions and turbulence, and the general circulation of the atmosphere and ocean. Student problems and exercises are included at the end of each chapter. Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics: Fundamentals and Large-Scale Circulation will be an invaluable graduate textbook on advanced courses in GFD, meteorology, atmospheric science and oceanography, and an excellent review volume for researchers. Additional resources are available at www.cambridge.org/9780521849692. |
Contents
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vii | 23 |
Effects of Rotation and Stratification | 51 |
1 | 118 |
Shallow Water Systems and Isentropic Coordinates | 123 |
Vorticity and Potential Vorticity | 163 |
2 | 180 |
The Continuously Stratified QuasiGeostrophic System | 215 |
3 | 391 |
Turbulent Diffusion and Eddy Transport | 407 |
LARGESCALE ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION | 449 |
Zonally Averaged MidLatitude Atmospheric Circulation | 485 |
Planetary Waves and the Stratosphere | 541 |
3 | 554 |
LARGESCALE OCEANIC CIRCULATION | 581 |
The BuoyancyDriven Ocean Circulation | 627 |
6 | 226 |
8 | 234 |
INSTABILITIES WAVEMEAN FLOW INTERACTION | 245 |
7 | 288 |
5 | 319 |
Basic Theory of Incompressible Turbulence | 337 |
Energy and enstrophy transfer | 351 |
Numerical illustrations | 360 |
Geostrophic Turbulence and Baroclinic Eddies | 377 |
Common terms and phrases
adiabatic advection approximation atmosphere baroclinic instability barotropic boundary conditions boundary layer Boussinesq Boussinesq equations buoyancy component constant convection coordinates Coriolis parameter deformation radius diffusion eddy Ekman layer enstrophy equations of motion flow fluid parcel force form drag friction function geostrophic balance given gradient heat height field horizontal hydrostatic balance ideal gas inertial initial integral isentropic isentropic surface isopycnal kinetic energy latitude linear mass conservation equation material derivative meridional momentum equation non-dimensional obtain ocean overturning circulation perturbation polewards potential energy potential temperature potential vorticity pressure primitive equations problem quasi-geostrophic right-hand side Rossby number Rossby waves rotation scale shallow water equations shear solution stratification streamfunction surface term thermocline thermodynamic equation thickness tracer turbulence two-dimensional two-layer variables vector vertical velocity viscosity vorticity equation wavenumber zero zonally averaged ди др ду дф дх
References to this book
Atmosphere, Ocean and Climate Dynamics: An Introductory Text John Marshall,R. Alan Plumb Limited preview - 2007 |