Ocean Circulation Physics

Name: Ocean Circulation Physics
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Front Cover
Ocean Circulation Physics
Copyright Page
Contents
Preface
PART ONE
Chapter I. Wave Generation
1.1 Review of Ideal Fluid Theory
1.2 Review of Surface Gravity Waves
1.3 Generation of Gravity Waves by Atmospheric Pressure Fluctuations
1.4 Statistical Resonance Theory
1.5 Stability of Parallel Shear Flow
1.6 Gravity Waves Generated by Shear Flow Instability
References
Chapter II. Rotating Fluids
2.1 Review of Coriolis Force
2.2 Rotational Rigidity and Inertia Waves
2.3 The Conservation of Potential Vorticity
2.4 Illustrative Examples
2.5 The ß Effect in a Rotating Spherical Annulus
2.6 Inertial Western Boundary Current
2.7 Another Western Boundary Current
References and Supplementary Reading
Chapter III. Density Currents
3.1 Review of Nonrotating Shallow Water Theory
3.2 The Hydrostatic Approximation in a Rotating Fluid
3.3 Conservation Theorems
3.4 Inertia-Gravity and Kelvin Waves
3.5 Flow through a Rotating Open Channel
3.6 Internal Motions in Layers of Slightly Different Density
3.7 Shallow Water Theory on a Rotating Sphere
References
Chapter IV. Quasi-Geostrophic Motion
4.1 The Transition from Shallow Water to Quasi-Geostrophic Theory
4.2 Quasi-Geostrophic Vorticity Equation
4.3 Barotropic Instability
4.4 Baroclinic Instability
4.5 Energetics of Geostrophic Flow
4.6 Planetary Waves
References
Chapter V. Laminar Viscous Flow
5.1 Review of Navier-Stokes Equations
5.2 Laminar Ekman Flow
5.3 Parametric Ekman Theory
Reference
Chapter VI. Shear Turbulence
6.1 Stability of Viscous Shear Flow
6.2 Reynolds Equations
6.3 Rough Similarity Law in a Smooth Pipe
6.4 Homogeneous Isotropic Turbulence
References
Chapter VII. Wind Driven Circulation
7.1 The Turbulent Ekman Layer
7.2 Where Does the Momentum Go?
7.3 Sverdrup Theory
7.4 Inertial Western Boundary Layers
7.5 Comparison with Observations
References
Chapter VIII. Wind Driven Appendix
8.1 Depth of the Turbulent Ekman Layer
8.2 Ekman Transport Generalized
8.3 Example of Wind Stress-Vortex Interaction
8.4 Equatorial Undercurrent
References
PART TWO
Chapter IX. Stratification
9.1 Equation of State and the Parcel Method
9.2 Rotating Stratified Fluids
9.3 Boussinesq Approximation
9.4 Internal Waves
9.5 Critical Layer in a Stratified Shear Flow
9.6 Instability of a Stratified Shear Flow
9.7 The Effect of Shear on Unstable Stratification - Langmuir Cells
9.8 Wave- Wave Interactions
9.9 Inertia-Gravity Waves
References
Chapter X. Convection
10.1 Introduction
10.2 The Critical Rayleigh Number
10.3 Power Integrals
10.4 Finite Amplitude Convection
10.5 Convection at Large Prandtl Number
10.6 Similarity Theory of Thermal Turbulence
10.7 Evaporative Convection
10.8 Haline Convection
References
Chapter XI. Thermohaline Convection
11.1 Introduction
11.2 Instability of Temperature-Salinity Stratifications
11.3 Interaction of Salt Fingers with Larger Scales of Motion
11.4 Transition to Turbulence
11.5 Cold Fresh Layers over Warm Salty Layers
11.6 General Thermodynamic Relations
11.7 Forced Convection
References
Chapter XII. Horizontal Convection and Thermoclines
12.1 Nonrotating Thermocline
12.2 Thermocline in a Rotating Annulus
12.3 Thermocline in a Rotating Spherical Sector
References
Appendix: The Ocean Pycnocline
References
Index

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