An edition of Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics (2006)
Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics
Fundamentals and Large-scale Circulation
By Geoffrey K. Vallis
Publish Date
November 6, 2006
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Language
eng
Pages
773
Description:
Fluid dynamics is fundamental to our understanding of the atmosphere and oceans. Although many of the same principles of fluid dynamics apply to both the atmosphere and oceans, textbooks tend to concentrate on the atmosphere, the ocean, or the theory of geophysical fluid dynamics (GFD). This textbook provides a comprehensive unified treatment of atmospheric and oceanic fluid dynamics. The book introduces the fundamentals of geophysical fluid dynamics, including rotation and stratification, vorticity and potential vorticity, and scaling and approximations. It discusses baroclinic and barotropic instabilities, wave-mean flow interactions and turbulence, and the general circulation of the atmosphere and ocean.