The general circulation of the atmosphere
Subtitle: 2000 Program in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics
By: by Rick Salmon...[et al.]
Contributors: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
Series: WHOI -- 2001-03.; Technical report; WHOI (Series) -- 2001-03.; Technical report (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
Publisher: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Woods Hole, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 179
Subjects: Geophysics -- Fluid models -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Other titles: Geophysical fluid dynamics program, 2000.
Description: In its millenial session, the GFD program focused on "The General Circulation of the Atmosphere." Isaac Held led the charge with an inspiring two-week introductory course, strongly supported by the lectures of Alan Plumb, Wayne Schubert, Michael Cullen, and Oliver Buhler. As the dust settled, the important concept of pseudomomentum shone brightly in the sky above Walsh Cottage. This is a concept which has virtually transformed meteorology within the past 20 years, yet it remains mostly unfamiliar to oceanographers and others. Thus our "pseudomomentum summer" perfectly fit the GFD mission of diffusing ideas across disciplinary boundaries. As the summer wore on, the range of topics broadened in its customary way to include: the general circulation of Jupiter and Mars; lattice-Boltzmann and gas-kinetic methods for solving the equations of fluid mechanics; the scattering of sound waves; the heating of the universe; and many more topics too numerous to list.
Notes: "Funding was provided by the Office of Naval Research under Contract No. N00014-97-1-0934 and the National Science Foundation under Contract No. OCE-9810647."

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