Author: Jeffrey A. ProehlPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rossby waves
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Equatorial Wave-mean Flow Interaction
Author: Jeffrey A. ProehlPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rossby waves
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Observations of Wave-mean Flow Interaction in the Pacific Equatorial Undercurrent
Author: Esther C. BradyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ocean currents
Languages : en
Pages : 622
Book Description
An Observational Study of Wave-mean Flow Interaction in the Equatorial Middle Atmosphere
Author: Matthew Harold HitchmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Atmospheric waves
Languages : en
Pages : 720
Book Description
Waves and Mean Flows
Author: Oliver BühlerPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139480715
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Interactions between waves and mean flows play a crucial role in understanding the long-term aspects of atmospheric and oceanographic modelling. Indeed, our ability to predict climate change hinges on our ability to model waves accurately. This book gives a modern account of the nonlinear interactions between waves and mean flows such as shear flows and vortices. A detailed account of the theory of linear dispersive waves in moving media is followed by a thorough introduction to classical wave–mean interaction theory. The author then extends the scope of the classical theory and lifts its restriction to zonally symmetric mean flows. The book is a fundamental reference for graduate students and researchers in fluid mechanics, and can be used as a text for advanced courses; it will also be appreciated by geophysicists and physicists who need an introduction to this important area in fundamental fluid dynamics and atmosphere-ocean science.
Impact of Realistic Mean Flow on Equatorial Waves in the Pacific Ocean
Author: Howard Franklin SeidelPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ocean circulation
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics
Author: Geoffrey K. VallisPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139459961
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 772
Book 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. 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.
A Theoretical Study of the Influence of Mean Meridional Flow Upon Trapped Equatorial Waves
Author: Marco Antonio Maringolo LemesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Tropics
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Middle Atmosphere Dynamics
Author: David G. AndrewsPublisher: Academic Press
ISBN: 0080954677
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
For advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students in atmospheric, oceanic, and climate science, Atmosphere, Ocean and Climate Dynamics is an introductory textbook on the circulations of the atmosphere and ocean and their interaction, with an emphasis on global scales. It will give students a good grasp of what the atmosphere and oceans look like on the large-scale and why they look that way. The role of the oceans in climate and paleoclimate is also discussed. The combination of observations, theory and accompanying illustrative laboratory experiments sets this text apart by making it accessible to students with no prior training in meteorology or oceanography. * Written at a mathematical level that is appealing for undergraduates and beginning graduate students * Provides a useful educational tool through a combination of observations and laboratory demonstrations which can be viewed over the web * Contains instructions on how to reproduce the simple but informative laboratory experiments * Includes copious problems (with sample answers) to help students learn the material.
Dynamics of the Equatorial Ocean
Author: John P. BoydPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3662554763
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 529
Book Description
This book is the first comprehensive introduction to the theory of equatorially-confined waves and currents in the ocean. Among the topics treated are inertial and shear instabilities, wave generation by coastal reflection, semiannual and annual cycles in the tropic sea, transient equatorial waves, vertically-propagating beams, equatorial Ekman layers, the Yoshida jet model, generation of coastal Kelvin waves from equatorial waves by reflection, Rossby solitary waves, and Kelvin frontogenesis. A series of appendices on midlatitude theories for waves, jets and wave reflections add further material to assist the reader in understanding the differences between the same phenomenon in the equatorial zone versus higher latitudes.
The Interaction of Ocean Waves and Wind
Author: Peter JanssenPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521465400
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
This book was published in 2004. The Interaction of Ocean Waves and Wind describes in detail the two-way interaction between wind and ocean waves and shows how ocean waves affect weather forecasting on timescales of 5 to 90 days. Winds generate ocean waves, but at the same time airflow is modified due to the loss of energy and momentum to the waves; thus, momentum loss from the atmosphere to the ocean depends on the state of the waves. This volume discusses ocean wave evolution according to the energy balance equation. An extensive overview of nonlinear transfer is given, and as a by-product the role of four-wave interactions in the generation of extreme events, such as freak waves, is discussed. Effects on ocean circulation are described. Coupled ocean-wave, atmosphere modelling gives improved weather and wave forecasts. This volume will interest ocean wave modellers, physicists and applied mathematicians, and engineers interested in shipping and coastal protection.