Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics
Subtitle: Fundamentals and Large-scale Circulation
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: November 6, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 770
ISBN-13: 9780521849692
Subjects: Atmospheric physics; Oceanography (seas); Science; Science/Mathematics; Earth Sciences - Meteorology & Climatology; Hydraulics; Science / Meteorology
Description: Fluid 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.