Ocean circulation physics / Melvin E. Stern.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stern, Melvin E.

Series:

International geophysics series ; v. 19.

International geophysics series ; v. 19

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hydrodynamics.

Oceanic mixing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Academic Press, 1975.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Ocean circulation physics

Contents:

Front Cover; Ocean Circulation Physics; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; PART ONE; Chapter I. Wave Generation; 1.1 Review of Ideal Fluid Theory; 1.2 Review of Surface Gravity Waves; 1.3 Generation of Gravity Waves by Atmospheric Pressure Fluctuations; 1.4 Statistical Resonance Theory; 1.5 Stability of Parallel Shear Flow; 1.6 Gravity Waves Generated by Shear Flow Instability; References; Chapter II. Rotating Fluids; 2.1 Review of Coriolis Force; 2.2 Rotational Rigidity and Inertia Waves; 2.3 The Conservation of Potential Vorticity; 2.4 Illustrative Examples

2.5 The ß Effect in a Rotating Spherical Annulus2.6 Inertial Western Boundary Current; 2.7 Another Western Boundary Current; References and Supplementary Reading; Chapter III. Density Currents; 3.1 Review of Nonrotating Shallow Water Theory; 3.2 The Hydrostatic Approximation in a Rotating Fluid; 3.3 Conservation Theorems; 3.4 Inertia-Gravity and Kelvin Waves; 3.5 Flow through a Rotating Open Channel; 3.6 Internal Motions in Layers of Slightly Different Density; 3.7 Shallow Water Theory on a Rotating Sphere; References; Chapter IV. Quasi-Geostrophic Motion

4.1 The Transition from Shallow Water to Quasi-Geostrophic Theory4.2 Quasi-Geostrophic Vorticity Equation; 4.3 Barotropic Instability; 4.4 Baroclinic Instability; 4.5 Energetics of Geostrophic Flow; 4.6 Planetary Waves; References; Chapter V. Laminar Viscous Flow; 5.1 Review of Navier-Stokes Equations; 5.2 Laminar Ekman Flow; 5.3 Parametric Ekman Theory; Reference; Chapter VI. Shear Turbulence; 6.1 Stability of Viscous Shear Flow; 6.2 Reynolds Equations; 6.3 Rough Similarity Law in a Smooth Pipe; 6.4 Homogeneous Isotropic Turbulence; References; Chapter VII. Wind Driven Circulation

7.1 The Turbulent Ekman Layer7.2 Where Does the Momentum Go?; 7.3 Sverdrup Theory; 7.4 Inertial Western Boundary Layers; 7.5 Comparison with Observations; References; Chapter VIII. Wind Driven Appendix; 8.1 Depth of the Turbulent Ekman Layer; 8.2 Ekman Transport Generalized; 8.3 Example of Wind Stress-Vortex Interaction; 8.4 Equatorial Undercurrent; References; PART TWO; Chapter IX. Stratification; 9.1 Equation of State and the Parcel Method; 9.2 Rotating Stratified Fluids; 9.3 Boussinesq Approximation; 9.4 Internal Waves; 9.5 Critical Layer in a Stratified Shear Flow

9.6 Instability of a Stratified Shear Flow9.7 The Effect of Shear on Unstable Stratification - Langmuir Cells; 9.8 Wave- Wave Interactions; 9.9 Inertia-Gravity Waves; References; Chapter X. Convection; 10.1 Introduction; 10.2 The Critical Rayleigh Number; 10.3 Power Integrals; 10.4 Finite Amplitude Convection; 10.5 Convection at Large Prandtl Number; 10.6 Similarity Theory of Thermal Turbulence; 10.7 Evaporative Convection; 10.8 Haline Convection; References; Chapter XI. Thermohaline Convection; 11.1 Introduction; 11.2 Instability of Temperature-Salinity Stratifications

11.3 Interaction of Salt Fingers with Larger Scales of Motion

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographies.

ISBN:

1-282-28992-6

9786612289927

0-08-095454-5

OCLC:

316552930