http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
understanding (almost) everything with rotating shallow water models
1 online resource : illustrations (some color)
For the dynamics of large and medium scale motions in the oceans and the atmosphere, a simplified rotating shallow water model, obtained by vertical averaging, is used throughout the book in order to explain the fundamentals, and to give in-depth treatment of important dynamical processes.
Part I. Modelling large-scale oceanic and atmospheric flows: from primitive to rotating shallow water equations and beyond. Introduction ; Primitive equations model ; Simplifying primitive equations : rotating shallow water models and their properties ; Wave motions in rotating shallow water with boundaries, topography, at the equator, and in laboratory; Getting rid of fast waves : slow dynamics ; Vortex dynamics on the f and beta plane and wave radiation by vortices ; Rotating shallow water models as quasilinear hyperbolic systems, and related numerical methods -- part II. Understanding fundamental dynamical phenomena with rotating shallow-water models. Geostrophic adjustment and wave-vortex (non)interaction ; RSW modons, and their surprising properties : RSW turbulence ; Instabilities of jets and fronts and their nonlinear evolution ; Instabilities in cylindrical geometry : vortices and laboratory flows ; Resonant wave interactions and resonant excitation of wave-guide modes ; Wave turbulence -- part III. Generalisations of standard rotating shallow-water model, and their applications. Rotating shallow-water model with horizontal density and/or temperature gradients ; Rotating shallow-water models with moist convection ; Rotating shallow-water models with full Coriolis force.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2018