عنوان

Theoretical Geophysical Fluid Dynamics

(Number (ISBN

9400918801

(Number (ISBN

9789400918801

Number

b592726

Title Proper

Theoretical Geophysical Fluid Dynamics

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

by A.S. Monin.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Dordrecht

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Springer Netherlands

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

1990

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

(XII, 402 pages)

Series Title

Environmental fluid mechanics, 6.

Text of Note

I: General Concepts --; 1. Equations of Geophysical Fluid Dynamics --; 2. Small Oscillations --; 3. Hydrodynamic Instability --; II: Processes --; 4. Surface Waves --; 5. Internal Waves --; 6. Geophysical Turbulence --; 7. Rossby Waves --; III: Global Problems --; 8. General Circulation of the Atmosphere and Ocean --; 9. Theory of Climate --; 10. Fluid Dynamics of Planetary Interiors --; Selected References.

Text of Note

This book grew out of lectures on geophysical fluid dynamics delivered over many years at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology by the author (and, with regard to some parts of the book, by his colleagues). During these lectures the students were advised to read many books, and sometimes individual articles, in order to acquaint themselves with the necessary material, since there was no single book available which provided a sufficiently complete and systematic account (except, perhaps, the volumes on Hydrophysics of the Ocean, Hydrodynamics of the Ocean, and Geodynamics in the ten-volume Oceanology series published by Nauka Press in 1978-1979; these refer, however, specifically to the ocean, and anyway they are much too massive to be convenient for study by students). As far as we know, no text corresponding to our understanding of geophysical fluid dynamics has as yet been published outside the Soviet Union. The present book is designed to fill this gap. Since it is customary to write the preface after the entire book has been completed, the author has an opportunity there to raise some points of possible criticism by the reviewers and readers. First of all, note that this work presents the theoretical fundamentals of geophysical fluid dynamics, and that observational and experimental data (which in the natural sciences are always very copious) are referred to only rarely and briefly.

Meteorology.

Oceanography.

Physics.

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by A.S. Monin.

A S Monin

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