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Joseph Pedlosky

Geophysical Fluid Dynamics

English · Paperback / Softback

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Description

Geophysical Fluid Dynamics offers the reader a high- level, unified treatment of the theory of the dynamics of large-scale motions of the oceans and atmosphere. It includes discussions of - the fundamentals of geostrophic turbulence; - the theory of wave-mean flow interactions; - thermocline theory; - finite amplitude barocline instability.

List of contents

Contents: Preliminaries.- Fundamentals.- Inviscid Shallow-Water Theory.- Friction and Viscous Flow.- Homogeneous Models of the Wind-Driven Oceanic Circulation.- Quasigeostrophic Motion of a Stratified Fluid on a Sphere.- Instability Theory.- Ageostrophic Motion.- Selected Bibliography.- Index.

Product details

Authors	Joseph Pedlosky
Publisher	Springer, Berlin

Languages	English
Product format	Paperback / Softback
Released	01.01.1987

EAN	9783540963875
ISBN	978-3-540-96387-5
No. of pages	710
Weight	1006 g
Illustrations	m. 198 Darst.
Subject	Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Miscellaneous

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