عنوان

Modeling Atmospheric and Oceanic Flows :

(Number (ISBN

1118855930

(Number (ISBN

9781118855935

Number

b418458

Title Proper

Modeling Atmospheric and Oceanic Flows :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

Insights from Laboratory Experiments and Numerical Simulations /

First Statement of Responsibility

Thomas von Larcher, Paul D. Williams, editors

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xiii, 353 pages, [16] pages of plates :

Other Physical Details

illustrations (some color), graphs ;

Dimensions

29 cm

Series Title

Geophysical monograph,

Volume Designation

205

ISSN of Series

0065-8448 ;

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Text of Note

Introduction: Simulations of natural flows in the laboratory and on a computer -- Section I: Baroclinic-driven flows: General circulation of planetary atmospheres: insights from rotating annulus and related experiments -- Primary flow transitions in the baroclinic annulus: Prandtl number effects -- Amplitude vacillation in baroclinic flows -- Section II: Balanced and unbalanced flows: Rotation effects on wall-bounded flows: some laboratory experiments -- Altimetry in a GFD laboratory and flows on the polar Beta-plane -- Instabilities of shallow-water flows with vertical shear in the rotating annulus -- Laboratory experiments on flows over bottom topography -- Direct numerical simulations of laboratory-scale stratified turbulence -- Section III: Atmospheric Flows: Numerical simulation (DNS, LES) of geophysical laboratory experiments: quasi-biennial oscillation (QBO) analogue and simulations toward Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO) analogue -- Internal waves in laboratory experiments -- Frontal instabilities at density-shear interfaces in rotating two-layer stratified fluids -- Section IV: Oceanic Flows: Large-amplitude coastal shelf waves -- Laboratory experiments with abrupt thermohaline transitions and oscillations -- Oceanic island wake flows in the laboratory -- Section V: Lagrangian methods in experimental fluid mechanics -- A high-resolution method for direct numerical simulation of instabilities and transitions in a baroclinic cavity -- Orthogonal decomposition methods to analyze PIV, LDV, and thermography data of thermally driven rotating annulus laboratory experiments

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Atmospheric physics

Oceanography

Larcher, Thomas von

Williams, Paul D., (Paul David),1977-

Date of Transaction

20141219111340.0

Cataloguing Rules (Descriptive Conventions))

rda

Electronic name

[Book]

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