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Record Nr.

UNISA996466695703316

Titolo

Fronts, Waves and Vortices in Geophysical Flows [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Jan-Bert Flor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2010

ISBN

1-280-01164-5

9786613513038

3-642-11587-X

Edizione

[1st ed. 2010.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (IX, 192 p.)

Collana

Lecture Notes in Physics, , 0075-8450 ; ; 805

Disciplina

550

Soggetti

Geophysics

Fluids

Fluid mechanics

Oceanography

Environmental sciences

Atmospheric sciences

Geophysics/Geodesy

Fluid- and Aerodynamics

Engineering Fluid Dynamics

Environmental Physics

Atmospheric Sciences

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Dynamics of Vortices in Rotating and Stratified Fluids -- Stability of Quasi-Two-Dimensional Vortices -- Oceanic Vortices -- Lagrangian Dynamics of Fronts, Vortices and Waves: Understanding the (Semi-)geostrophic Adjustment -- Wave–Vortex Interactions.

Sommario/riassunto

Most well known structures in planetary atmospheres and the Earth’s oceans are jets or fronts interacting with vortices on a wide range of scales. The transition from one state to another, such as in unbalanced or adjustment flows, involves the generation of waves as well as the interaction of coherent structures with these waves. This book presents



a fluid mechanics perspective to the dynamics of fronts and vortices and their interaction with waves in geophysical flows. It provides a basic physical background for modeling coherent structures in a geophysical context, and it gives essential information on advanced topics such as spontaneous wave emission and wavemomentum transfer in geophysical flows. Based on a set of lectures by leading specialists, this text is targeted at graduate students, researchers and engineers in geophysics and environmental fluid mechanics.