Fundamentals of Geophysical Hydrodynamics

• Main Author: Dolzhansky, Felix V. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: Encyclopaedia of Mathematical Sciences, 103
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Hydraulic engineering.; Mathematical Applications in the Physical Sciences.; Geophysics and Environmental Physics.; Hydrogeology.; Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics.; Fluid- and Aerodynamics.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31034-8

This newly-translated book takes the reader from the basic principles and conservation laws of hydrodynamics to the description of general atmospheric circulation. Among the topics covered are the Kelvin, Ertel and Rossby-Obukhov invariants, quasi-geostrophic equation, thermal wind, singular Helmhol...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Part I Main Principles and Laws of Motion of an Ideal Fluid
• Part II Quasi-geostrophic Approximations of the Equations of Motion of Rotating Barotropic and Baroclinic Fluids
• Part III Hydrodynamic Stability and Atmospheric Dynamics
• Part IV Friction in Geophysical Boundary Layers and Their Models
• Part V Mechanical Prototypes of Equations of Motion of a Rotating Stratified Fluid and a Toy Model of Atmospheric Circulation
• Part VI Appendices
• Index.