Synoptic Eddies in the Ocean

List of contents

1. Stratification and Circulation of the Ocean.- 1. Oceanic Processes with Different Temporal and Spatial Scales.- 2. Stratification of the Ocean.- 3. Large-scale Currents.- 4. Synoptic Processes.- 2. Theory of Rossby Waves.- 1. The Quasigeostrophic Approximation.- 2. Rossby Waves.- 3. Weak Turbulence on the ?-Plane.- 4. Rossby Solitons.- 3. Theory of Ocean Eddies.- 1. Baroclinic Instability of Large-scale Currents.- 2. Generation of Eddies by Bottom Relief.- 3. Generation of Eddies by Direct Forcing by the Atmosphere.- 4. Eddy-resolving Numerical Models.- 5. Statistical Dynamics of Ocean Eddies.- 4. Eddies of Western Boundary Currents.- 1. Gulf Stream Eddies.- 2. Eddies of the Kuroshio System.- 3. Eddies of Other Western Boundary Currents.- 5. Eddies in the Open Ocean.- 1. First Indications. 'Polygon-70' and MODE.- 2. Polymode.- 3. Eddies at Low Latitudes.- 4. Eddies at High Latitudes.- 5. Synoptic Eddies in the World Ocean.- 6. Applied Problems.- 1. Synoptic Eddies and Formation of Weather and Climate.- 2. Synoptic Variability of Hydrochemical and Hydrobiological Characteristics.- 3. Acoustic Applications.- Subject Inde.

Product details

• Assisted by: V. M. Kamenkovich (Editor), V.M. Kamenkovich (Editor), M. N. Koshlyakov (Editor), M.N. Koshlyakov (Editor), Monin (Editor), Monin (Editor), A. S. Monin (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.12.2012
• EAN: 9789027719256
• ISBN: 978-90-277-1925-6
• No. of pages: 444
• Dimensions: 162 mm x 242 mm x 30 mm
• Weight: 830 g
• Illustrations: 444 p.
• Series: Environmental Fluid Mechanics; Environmental Fluid Mechanics
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences