Geophysical Fluid Dynamics II
Stratified / Rotating Fluid Dynamics of the Atmosphere—Ocean
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Beschreibung
This book develops a fundamental understanding of geophysical fluid dynamics based on a mathematical description of the flows of inhomogeneous fluids. It covers these topics:
1. development of the equations of motion for an inhomogeneous fluid
2. review of thermodynamics
3. thermodynamic and kinetic energy equations4. equations of state for the atmosphere and the ocean, salt, and moisture effects
5. concepts of potential temperature and potential density
6. Boussinesq and quasi-geostrophic approximations7. conservation equations for vorticity, mechanical and thermal energy instability theories, internal waves, mixing, convection, double-diffusion, stratified turbulence, fronts, intrusions, gravity currents
Graduate students will be able to learn and apply the basic theory of geophysical fluid dynamics of inhomogeneous fluids on a rotating earth, including:
1. derivation of the governing equations for a stratified fluid starting from basic principles of physics
2. review of thermodynamics, equations of state, isothermal, adiabatic, isentropic changes
3. scaling of the equations, Boussinesq approximation, applied to the ocean and the atmosphere
4. examples of stratified flows at geophysical scales, steady and unsteady motions, inertia-gravity internal waves, quasi-geostrophic theory
5. vorticity and energy conservation in stratified fluids
6.boundary layer convection in stratified containers and basins
Is based on basic mechanical principles, vector and tensor calculus Contains mathematical derivations based on sequentially presented building blocks Explains derived equations and re-interprets their solutions in terms of physical principles Presents graphical illustrations of introduced concepts and representative images
Autor*in
Emin Özsoy
Themen in »Geophysical Fluid Dynamics II«
Coastal Seas Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Internal Waves Inertio-Gravity Waves Quasi-Geostrophic Dynamics