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PublisherSpringer Berlin / Heidelberg
ISBN-103540752145
ISBN-139783540752141
eBay Product ID (ePID)63476587
Product Key Features
Number of PagesIX, 262 Pages
Publication NameTransport and Mixing in Geophysical Flows
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2007
SubjectMechanics / Fluids, Physics / Geophysics, Earth Sciences / Meteorology & Climatology, Mechanics / Thermodynamics
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaScience
AuthorJeffrey B. Weiss
SeriesLecture Notes in Physics Ser.
FormatMixed Lot
Dimensions
Item Weight44.1 Oz
Item Length9.3 in
Item Width6.1 in
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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
ReviewsFrom the reviews:"The book contains original research articles by many of the world's leading researchers in geophysical fluid dynamics. … I have read this book with great interest and pleasure. The style of presentation is clear and readable. … this book will definitely help those who know the subject and who are interested in theoretical approaches, with a direct preference for the geophysical fluid dynamics. Graduate students of geophysics and applied mathematics interested in environmental fluid mechanics should also reference it." (Andrzej Icha, Pure and Applied Geophysics, Vol. 166, 2009), From the reviews: "The book contains original research articles by many of the world's leading researchers in geophysical fluid dynamics. ... I have read this book with great interest and pleasure. The style of presentation is clear and readable. ... this book will definitely help those who know the subject and who are interested in theoretical approaches, with a direct preference for the geophysical fluid dynamics. Graduate students of geophysics and applied mathematics interested in environmental fluid mechanics should also reference it." (Andrzej Icha, Pure and Applied Geophysics, Vol. 166, 2009), From the reviews:"The book contains original research articles by many of the world __s leading researchers in geophysical fluid dynamics. _ I have read this book with great interest and pleasure. The style of presentation is clear and readable. _ this book will definitely help those who know the subject and who are interested in theoretical approaches, with a direct preference for the geophysical fluid dynamics. Graduate students of geophysics and applied mathematics interested in environmental fluid mechanics should also reference it." (Andrzej Icha, Pure and Applied Geophysics, Vol. 166, 2009)
Dewey Edition22
Series Volume Number744
Number of Volumes1 vol.
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal551.01532051
Table Of ContentTheory.- Scalar Decay in Chaotic Mixing.- Transport of Inert and Reactive Particles: Lagrangian Statistics in Turbulent Flow.- Diffusion and Reaction-Diffusion in Steady Flows at Large Péclet Numbers.- An Introduction to Radiative Transfer for Geophysicists.- Coherent Vortices and Tracer Transport.- Experiments and Observations.- Dispersion and Mixing in Quasi-two-dimensional Rotating Flows.- Quantifying Inhomogeneous, Instantaneous, Irreversible Transport Using Passive Tracer Field as a Coordinate.- Lagrangian Statistics from Oceanic and Atmospheric Observations.- The Modulation of Biological Production by Oceanic Mesoscale Turbulence.
SynopsisTransports in fluids can be approached from two complementary perspectives. In the Eulerian view of mixing, the focus is on the concentration field. In the Langrangian view, fluid parcels are followed around as they move with the flow, experiencing chaotic or stochastic motion. This book examines both pictures, presenting a number of theoretical and experimental lectures on various aspects of transport and mixing of active and passive particles in geophysical flows., Geophysical ?ows are characterized by their ability to transport heat, - mentum and material quantities large distances. The entire climate system can be seen as a heat engine, and the solar energy absorbed at the tropics is transported, by the ocean currents and the global atmospheric circulation, toward the poles. As a result, the surface temperature of the earth is more uniform than it would be in the absence of a ?uid envelope. Stratospheric currents induce global transport, and on smaller scales, regional circulations stir and mix nutrients and pollutants in ocean basins and in the troposphere. Transport and mixing also a'ect the functioning of marine ecosystems, where they are responsible for nutrient and plankton advection, and can determine the primary productivity of entire oceanic regions. Inthis volume,we havecollectedthe lecturenotesof someof the contri- tionspresentedduringthe2004SummerCourseon"TransportinGeophysical Flows" of the French-Italian School on "Fundamental Processes in Geoph- ical and Environmental Flows," directed by A. Provenzale and J. B. Weiss. Sometimehaselapsedsincetheschool,andthenotesofthelectureshavebeen revised by the authors to include more recent material and new perspectives. Although necessarily incomplete, this collection of notes provides an updated view of some of the currently active researchareas in the study of geophysical transport processes. Transport in ?uids can be approached from two complementary persp- tives.IntheEulerianviewofmixing,thefocusisonthetheconcentration'eld.
LC Classification NumberQC801-809
