Shallow Water Waves on the Rotating Earth

This book describes new theoretical advances concerning analytical solutions of the Rotating Shallow Water Equations, which will make it of great interest to graduate students and scientists in the fields of Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, Physical Oceanography, Dynamical Meteorology and Applied Mathematics.
The new dispersion relations and meridional amplitude variations of waves derived in this book can be applied to observations in the atmosphere and ocean and also provide alternatives to the Spherical Harmonics basis of global-scale spectral numerical models.

List of contents

Introduction.- A channel on the mid-latitude B-plane.- A channel on the equatorial B-plane.- Planetary and IG waves in an equatorial channel on a sphere.- Planetary and IG waves in a mid-latitude channel on a sphere.- Planetary and IG Waves on the rotating spherical earth.- Kelvin waves on the rotating spherical earth.

Summary

This book describes new theoretical advances concerning analytical solutions of the Rotating Shallow Water Equations, which will make it of great interest to graduate students and scientists in the fields of Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, Physical Oceanography, Dynamical Meteorology and Applied Mathematics.
The new dispersion relations and meridional amplitude variations of waves derived in this book can be applied to observations in the atmosphere and ocean and also provide alternatives to the Spherical Harmonics basis of global-scale spectral numerical models.

Product details

• Authors: Nathan Paldor
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2015
• EAN: 9783319202600
• ISBN: 978-3-31-920260-0
• No. of pages: 77
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 235 mm x 7 mm
• Weight: 165 g
• Illustrations: VIII, 77 p. 32 illus., 19 illus. in color.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Earth System Sciences; SpringerBriefs in Earth System Sciences
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geology; C, Geophysics, The environment, environmental science, engineering & technology, Earth and Environmental Science, Classical mechanics, Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences, Geophysics and Environmental Physics, Earth Sciences, Fluid mechanics, Fluid- and Aerodynamics, Fluids, Oceanography, Ocean Sciences, Geophysics/Geodesy, Atmospheric Sciences, Geotechnical engineering, Geotechnical Engineering and Applied Earth Sciences, Applied physics, Environmental Physics, Oceanography (seas), Continuum Mechanics, Atmospheric Science