Buoyant Convection in Geophysical Flows
By: edited by E. J. Plate, E. E. Fedorovich, D. X. Viegas, J. C. Wyngaard
Contributors: Fedorovich, E. E.; Viegas, D. X.; Wyngaard, J. C.
Series: NATO ASI Series, Series C: Mathematical and Physical Sciences -- 513; NATO ASI Series, Series C: Mathematical and Physical Sciences -- 513
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Dordrecht
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 491
ISBN-13: 9789401061254; 9789401150583
Subjects: Mechanics; Meteorology; Oceanography; Geography
Other titles: Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute, Pforzheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, 17-27 March 1997
Description: Studies of convection in geophysical flows constitute an advanced and rapidly developing area of research that is relevant to problems of the natural environment. During the last decade, significant progress has been achieved in the field as a result of both experimental studies and numerical modelling. This led to the principal revision of the widely held view on buoyancy-driven turbulent flows comprising an organised mean component with superimposed chaotic turbulence. An intermediate type of motion, represented by coherent structures, has been found to play a key role in geophysical boundary layers and in larger scale atmospheric and hydrospheric circulations driven by buoyant forcing. New aspects of the interaction between convective motions and rotation have recently been discovered and investigated. Extensive experimental data have also been collected on the role of convection in cloud dynamics and microphysics. New theoretical concepts and approaches have been outlined regarding scaling and parameterization of physical processes in buoyancy-driven geophysical flows. The book summarizes interdisciplinary studies of buoyancy effects in different media (atmosphere and hydrosphere) over a wide range of scales (small scale phenomena in unstably stratified and convectively mixed layers to deep convection in the atmosphere and ocean), by different research methods (field measurements, laboratory simulations, numerical modelling), and within a variety of application areas (dispersion of pollutants, weather forecasting, hazardous phenomena associated with buoyant forcing).
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