Atmosphere-Ocean DynamicsAcademic Press, 13 déc. 1982 - 662 pages A systematic, unifying approach to the dynamics of the ocean and atmosphere is given in this book, with emphasis on the larger-scale motions (from a few kilometers to global scale). The foundations of the subject (the equations of state and dynamical equations) are covered in some detail, so that students with training in mathematics should find it a self-contained text. Knowledge of fluid mechanics is helpful but not essential. Simple mathematical models are used to demonstrate the fundamental dynamical principles with plentiful illustrations from field and laboratory. |
Table des matières
| 1 | |
| 19 | |
| 39 | |
| 63 | |
Chapter Five Adjustment under Gravity in a Nonrotating System | 95 |
Chapter Six Adjustment under Gravity of a DensityStratified Fluid | 117 |
Chapter Seven Effects of Rotation | 189 |
Chapter Eight Gravity Waves in a Rotating Fluid | 247 |
Chapter Twelve Midlatitudes | 493 |
Chapter Thirteen Instabilities Fronts and the General Circulation | 549 |
Appendix One Units and Their SI Equivalents | 595 |
Appendix Two Useful Values | 597 |
Appendix Three Properties of Seawater | 599 |
Appendix Four Properties of Moist Air | 605 |
Appendix Five A List of Atlases and Data Sources | 609 |
| 613 | |
Chapter Nine Forced Motion | 317 |
Chapter Ten Effects of Side Boundaries | 371 |
Chapter Eleven The Tropics | 429 |
| 645 | |
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Expressions et termes fréquents
adjustment amplitude anticyclonic approximation atmosphere balance baroclinic barotropic boundary layer buoyancy frequency calculated changes Chapter circulation component condition constant continuity equation contours Coriolis Coriolis parameter corresponding currents defined density depth derived dispersion relation displacement eddies effects Ekman transport equatorial equilibrium flow fluid flux forcing friction geopotential geostrophic given gives gravity waves group velocity heat height hydrostatic hydrostatic equation inertial internal waves isallobaric Kelvin wave latitude lee waves m s¯¹ mass meridional mode momentum equations motion observed obtained ocean particle perturbation phase plane planetary waves Poincaré waves poleward potential energy potential temperature potential vorticity pressure gradient propagation quasi-geostrophic radiation region relative result Rossby radius rotation shallow-water shown in Fig shows solution speed stress thermocline topography upward variations vector vertical vorticity equation wavelength wavenumber wind zero zonal ду дх