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Environmental stratified flows / edited by Roger Grimshaw.

Contributor(s): Series: Topics in environmental fluid mechanics ; EFMS3.Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, c2002Description: 284 p. : ill. ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0792376056
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 532/.052 21
LOC classification:
  • QC809.F5 E68 2002
Online resources:
Contents:
Internal Solitary Waves / Roger Grimshaw -- Internal Tide Transformation and Oceanic Internal Solitary Waves / Peter Holloway, Efim Pelinovsky, Tatiana Talipova -- Atmospheric Internal Solitary Waves / James W. Rottman, Roger Grimshaw -- Gravity Currents / James W. Rottman, P. F. Linden -- Stratified Flow Over Topography / Ronald B. Smith -- Turbulence in Stratified Fluids / H. J. S. Fernando -- Laboratory Studies of Continuously Stratified Flows Past Obstacles / Don L. Boyer, Andjelka Srdic-Mitrovic -- Elements of Instability Theory for Environmental Flows / Larry G. Redekopp.
Summary: The dynamics of flows in density-stratified fluids has been and remains now an important topic for scientific enquiry. Such flows arise in many contexts, ranging from industrial settings to the oceanic and atmospheric environments. It is the latter topic which is the focus of this book. Both the ocean and atmosphere are characterised by the basic vertical density stratification, and this feature can affect the dynamics on all scales ranging from the micro-scale to the planetary scale. The aim of this book is to provide a “state-of-the-art” account of stratified flows as they are relevant to the ocean and atmosphere with a primary focus on meso-scale phenomena; that is, on phenomena whose time and space scales are such that the density stratification is a dominant effect, so that frictional and diffusive effects on the one hand and the effects of the earth’s rotation on the other hand can be regarded as of less importance. This in turn leads to an emphasis on internal waves.
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BOOK BOOK NCAR Library Mesa Lab QC809 .F5 .E68 2002 1 Available 50583020015636
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Internal Solitary Waves / Roger Grimshaw -- Internal Tide Transformation and Oceanic Internal Solitary Waves /
Peter Holloway, Efim Pelinovsky, Tatiana Talipova -- Atmospheric Internal Solitary Waves / James W. Rottman, Roger Grimshaw -- Gravity Currents / James W. Rottman, P. F. Linden -- Stratified Flow Over Topography / Ronald B. Smith -- Turbulence in Stratified Fluids / H. J. S. Fernando -- Laboratory Studies of Continuously Stratified Flows Past Obstacles / Don L. Boyer, Andjelka Srdic-Mitrovic -- Elements of Instability Theory for Environmental Flows / Larry G. Redekopp.

The dynamics of flows in density-stratified fluids has been and remains now an important topic for scientific enquiry. Such flows arise in many contexts, ranging from industrial settings to the oceanic and atmospheric environments. It is the latter topic which is the focus of this book. Both the ocean and atmosphere are characterised by the basic vertical density stratification, and this feature can affect the dynamics on all scales ranging from the micro-scale to the planetary scale. The aim of this book is to provide a “state-of-the-art” account of stratified flows as they are relevant to the ocean and atmosphere with a primary focus on meso-scale phenomena; that is, on phenomena whose time and space scales are such that the density stratification is a dominant effect, so that frictional and diffusive effects on the one hand and the effects of the earth’s rotation on the other hand can be regarded as of less importance. This in turn leads to an emphasis on internal waves.

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