Fronts, Waves and Vortices in Geophysical Flows

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Flor, Jan-Bert. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2010.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Physics, 805
• Subjects: Geography.; Physical geography.; Meteorology.; Oceanography.; Hydraulic engineering.; Earth Sciences.; Geophysics/Geodesy.; Fluid- and Aerodynamics.; Engineering Fluid Dynamics.; Environmental Physics.; Meteorology/Climatology.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-11587-5

Most well known structures in planetary atmospheres and the Earths oceans are jets or fronts interacting with vortices on a wide range of scales. The transition from one state to another, such as in unbalanced or adjustment flows, involves the generation of waves as well as the interaction of coher...

Table of Contents:

• Dynamics of Cortices in Rotating and Stratified Fluids
• Stability of Quasi of Two-Dimensional Vortices
• Oceanic Vortices
• Lagrangian Dynamics of Fronts, Vortices and Waves: Understanding the (Semi-)Geostrophic Adjustment
• Wave-Vortex Interactions
• Index.