Ocean Circulation Physics
Published on 14. May 2014
257 pages
978-0-08-095454-7 (ISBN)
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Ocean Circulation Physics
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English
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San Diego
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978-0-08-095454-7 (9780080954547)
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Melvin E. Stern
Ocean Circulation Physics
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01/1975
Academic Press
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Content
- 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
