Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics: Fundamentals and Large-Scale Circulation

摘要: Fluid dynamics is fundamental to our understanding of the atmosphere and oceans. Although many same principles fluid apply both oceans, textbooks tend concentrate on atmosphere, ocean, or theory geophysical (GFD). This textbook provides a comprehensive unified treatment atmospheric oceanic dynamics. The book introduces fundamentals dynamics, including rotation stratification, vorticity potential vorticity, scaling approximations. It discusses baroclinic barotropic instabilities, wave-mean flow interactions turbulence, general circulation ocean. Student problems exercises are included at end each chapter. Atmospheric Oceanic Dynamics: Fundamentals Large-Scale Circulation will be an invaluable graduate advanced courses in GFD, meteorology, science oceanography, excellent review volume for researchers. Additional resources available www.cambridge.org/9780521849692.