Stirring and mixing
Subtitle: 1999 Program of Summer Study in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics
By: by Neil J. Balmforth, William R. Young, Janet Fields ; Jean-Luc Thiffeault and Claudia Pasquero, editors.
Contributors: Young, W. R. 1955-; Fields, Janet.; Thiffeault, Jean-Luc.; Pasquero, Claudia.; Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
Series: WHOI -- 2000-07.; Technical report; WHOI (Series) -- 2000-07.; Technical report (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
Publisher: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Published: 2000
Place of publication: [Woods Hole, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 302
Subjects: Geophysics -- Fluid models.; Fluid dynamics.
Other titles: 1999 Program of Summer Study in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics.
Description: The central theme of the 1999 GFD Program was the stirring, transport, reaction and mixing of passive and active tracers in turbulent, stratified, rotating fluids. The problem of mixing in fluids has applications in areas ranging from oceanography to engineering and astrophysics. In geophysical settings, mixing spans and unites a broad range of scales -- from micrometers to megameters. The mixing of passive tracers is of fundamental importance in environmental and industrial problems, such as pollution, and in determining the large-scale heat and salt balance of the worlds oceans. The transport of active tracers, on the other hand, such as vorticity, plays a key role in the turbulence that occurs in most geophysical and astrophysical fluids. William R. Young (Scripps Institution of Oceanography) gave a series of principal lectures, the notes of which as taken by the fellows, appear in this volume. Report of the projects of the student fellows makes up the second half of this volume.
Notes: "July 2000."

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