Geophysical Fluid Dynamics

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This second edition of the widely acclaimed Geophysical Fluid Dynamics by Joseph Pedlosky offers the reader a high-level, unified treatment of the theory of the dynamics of large-scale motions of the oceans and atmosphere. Revised and updated, it includes expanded discussions of * the fundamentals of geostrophic turbulence * the theory of wave-mean flow interaction * thermocline theory * finite amplitude barocline instability. From the reviews: "The author has done a masterful job in presenting the theory with the necessary mathematical foundation, while keeping the physical aspects in clear view...it is an outstanding introduction to a complex and important subject." GEOPHYSICS

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My beloved book on GFD.......2006-03-07

Pedlosky's GFD book is a true classic. Its treatment of the core issues is precise and there is an excellent balance between the mathematical derivations and the discussions on the physical processes. One needs to have some background in classical fluid dynamics and applied mathematics (especially integral transformations, Fourier analysis, complex variables and PDE's) to truely appreciate the book but it can be potentially helpful to anyone who is interested in rotating stratified fluids and is eager to learn.

Intuition First.......2001-06-11

All the math in the world would be useless in any applied subject without physical intuition about the phenomena and a clear passage between the intuition and the math. Pedlosky's book has it all - intuition and math. I have loved studying it as my first step in the direction of geophysics from a career in pure mathematics. The book is clear, easy to read, interesting, fascinating. Thank you Pedlosky for a magnificent textbook.

GFD Bible.......2000-11-09

If you trully want to understand geophysical fluid dynamics (ocean/atmosphere) you can not avoid this great book. I strongly suggest it, specially if you are a graduate student going through a GFD course. Years from now you will still go back to Pedlosky to clarify your doubts.

Highly recommended for oceanographers and meteorologists........1996-12-10

Boy, I wish this book had been out when I was in grad school! (Physical oceanography). This is an essential work for the shelf of anyone interested in dynamic meteorology or oceanography. Well organized, thorough, and easy to follow (at least for the intended audience.)

Nonlinear Dynamics and Statistical Theories for Basic Geophysical Flows

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Nonlinear Dynamics and Statistical Theories for Basic Geophysical Flows
Andrew Majda , and Xiaoming Wang
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Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics: Fundamentals and Large-scale Circulation

ASIN: 0521834414

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This introduction to the important interplay between nonlinear dynamics and statistical theories for geophysical flows is designed for a multi-disciplinary audience ranging from graduate students to senior researchers. Novel applications of information theory are utilized to simplify, unify, and compare the equilibrium statistical theories. Topics and related background concepts are introduced and developed through elementary examples and discussion throughout the text as they arise. No previous background in geophysical flows is needed to read the text.

Fundamentals of Geophysical Fluid Dynamics

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Fundamentals of Geophysical Fluid Dynamics
James C. McWilliams
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Nonlinear Dynamics and Statistical Theories for Basic Geophysical Flows

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Earth's atmosphere and oceans exhibit complex patterns of fluid motion over a vast range of space and time scales. These patterns combine to establish the climate in response to solar radiation that is inhomogeneously absorbed by the materials comprising air, water, and land. Spontaneous, energetic variability arises from instabilities in the planetary-scale circulations, appearing in many different forms such as waves, jets, vortices, boundary layers, and turbulence. Geophysical fluid dynamics (GFD) is the science of all these types of fluid motion. This textbook is a concise and accessible introduction to GFD for intermediate to advanced students of the physics, chemistry, and/or biology of Earth's fluid environment. The book was developed from the author's many years of teaching a first-year graduate course at the University of California, Los Angeles. Readers are expected to be familiar with physics and mathematics at the level of general dynamics (mechanics) and partial differential equations.

Topics in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics: Atmospheric Dynamics, Dynamo Theory and Climate Dynamics (Applied Mathematical Sciences)

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Topics in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics: Atmospheric Dynamics, Dynamo Theory and Climate Dynamics (Applied Mathematical Sciences)
M. Ghil , and S. Childress
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Applies successive bifurcations approach to complex time-dependent processes in large scale atmospheric dynamics, geomagnetism, and theoretical climate dynamics. Presentation of results on planetary-scale phenomena in the earth's atmosphere, ocean, cryosphere, mantle and core provides an integrated account of mathematical theory and methods together with physical phenomena and processes. Brings together modern tools of nonlinear mathematics and the problems of global change in the environment.

Numerical Methods for Wave Equations in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics

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Numerical Methods for Wave Equations in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics
Dale R. Durran
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This scholarly text provides an introduction to the numerical methods used to model partial differential equations governing wave-like and weakly dissipative flows. The focus of the book is on fundamental methods and standard fluid dynamical problems such as tracer transport, the shallow-water equations and the Euler equations. The emphasis is on methods appropriate for applications in atmospheric and oceanic science, but these same methods are also well-suited for the simulation of wave-like flows in many other scientific and engineering disciplines.

The text discusses finite-difference, spectral, finite-element and finite-volume methods. Also included are additional chapters on semi-Lagrangian schemes, non-reflecting boundary conditions and methods for the efficient solution of problems that include physically insignificant rapidly propagating waves.

Throughout the book the author has followed a middle ground between the theorem-proof formalism of a pure mathematics text and the highly empirical approach found in some engineering publications. Although there are no formal proofs, the essential characteristics of the various schemes are mathematically derived in a style familiar to physical scientists. Numerical examples illustrating the theoretically derived properties of the various methods are presented throughout the book to establish a concrete link between theory and practice. Both theoretical and applied problems are provided at the end of each chapter.

Numerical Methods for Wave Equations in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics will be useful as a senior undergraduate and graduate text and as a reference for those teaching or using numerical methods, particularly for those concentrating on fluid dynamics.

Dale R. Durran is a professor at the University of Washington, Seattle. He has a doctorate in meteorology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a master's in mathematics from UC Berkeley.From the reviews: "...The book's unquestionable advantage is the clarity and simplicity in presenting virtually all basic ideas and methods of numerical analysis currently actively used in geophysical fluid dynamics." -Physics of Atmosphere and Ocean "...an excellent reference...should be brought to the attention of readers in meteorology, oceanography, physics, mechanics and engineering... an excellent text book...the extensiveness, theoretical and practical extent this book reaches make it a classical work." -Acta Meteorologica Sinica

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A great textbook!.......2000-03-15

In this introductory text space is equally divided into traditional methods (finite difference and spectral) and more modern methods (finite volume and semi-Lagrangian) for solving GFD-related PDEs. The book also contains chapters on filtering of physically insignificant fast waves and on open boundary conditions. Arguably these subjects can be learned by studying a collection of specialty books, but very seldom one finds even-handed treatment of all major techniques in a single book like this. More important, the breadth in scope does not come at the cost of depth or conciseness in presentation. Rather, the book achieves a delightful balance between breadth and depth, as well as between theory and practice. Not only is it an important successer to the long-respected Haltiner and Williams (1984), but it is much more readable.

I used the book to teach a graduate course on numerical methods at the University of Chicago. I could not cover the entire book in a 10-week quarter, but was able to cover chapters 2,3,4 and 5. The clearly written text was very helpful in organizing the class material.

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Excellent resource for students or as a refresher.......2007-07-28

It is very helpful to have a book geared toward one's first introduction to GFD concepts, since there are several offerings at more advanced levels.

A very good introduction.......2005-02-02

It is an introductory text, yet still calls to draw upon a lot of mathematical skills. Much easier to go through than Pedlosky, and has many exercises at the end of each chapter. It is esentially a book for the reader more interested in the dynamics and applications like myself than on a rigorous theoretical treatment of GFD.

A perfect resource for GFD.......2001-06-09

As someone who just spent a year preparing for my graduate qualifying exams in atmospheric science, this book quickly became my favorite. It is a short book, but is packed with a lot of the fundamentals of GFD. The derivations are not too complicated, and the explanations do a very good job making sense of it all. I did notice, however, that there were several typos throughout the book, an incorrect equation and paths to the wrong figures, but they weren't big enough to distract me.

Essential for understanding the ocean behaviour.......1999-06-24

This book represents the first stage to anyone who wants to know how does the ocean (and atmosfear)work and make it easily. It's simply great!. Thanks Mr.Cushman!

Lagrangian Transport in Geophysical Jets and Waves: The Dynamical Systems Approach (Interdisciplinary Applied Mathematics)

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Lagrangian Transport in Geophysical Jets and Waves: The Dynamical Systems Approach (Interdisciplinary Applied Mathematics)
R.M. Samelson , and S. Wiggins
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ASIN: 0387332693

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This book provides an accessible introduction to a new set of methods for the analysis of Lagrangian motion in geophysical flows. These methods were originally developed in the abstract mathematical setting of dynamical systems theory, through a geometric approach to differential equations. Despite the recent developments in this field and the existence of a substantial body of work on geophysical fluid problems in the dynamical systems and geophysical literature, this is the first introductory text that presents these methods in the context of geophysical fluid flow. The book is organized into seven chapters; the first introduces the geophysical context and the mathematical models of geophysical fluid flow that are explored in subsequent chapters. The second and third cover the simplest case of steady flow, develop basic mathematical concepts and definitions, and touch on some important topics from the classical theory of Hamiltonian systems. The fundamental elements and methods of Lagrangian transport analysis in time-dependent flows that are the main subject of the book are described in the fourth, fifth, and sixth chapters. The seventh chapter gives a brief survey of some of the rapidly evolving research in geophysical fluid dynamics that makes use of this new approach. Related supplementary material, including a glossary and an introduction to numerical methods, is given in the appendices.

This book will prove useful to graduate students, research scientists, and educators in any branch of geophysical fluid science in which the motion and transport of fluid, and of materials carried by the fluid, is of interest. It will also prove interesting and useful to the applied mathematicians who seek an introduction to an intriguing and rapidly developing area of geophysical fluid dynamics. The book was jointly authored by a geophysical fluid dynamicist, Roger M. Samelson of the College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences at Oregon State University, USA and an applied mathematician, Stephen Wiggins of the School of Mathematics, University of Bristol, UK.

Dynamics of Fluids And Transport in Fractured Rock (Geophysical Monograph)

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Angular Momentum in Geophysical Turbulence: Continuum Spatial Averaging Method

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Angular Momentum in Geophysical Turbulence: Continuum Spatial Averaging Method
Victor N. Nikolaevskiy
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ASIN: 1402017332

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Turbulence theory is one of the most intriguing parts of fluid mechanics and many outstanding scientists have tried to apply their knowledge to the development of the theory and to offer useful recommendations for the solution of some practical problems. In this monograph the author attempts to integrate many specific approaches into the unified theory.

Atmospheric Convection: Research and Operational Forecasting Aspects (CISM International Centre for Mechanical Sciences)

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Atmospheric Convection: Research and Operational Forecasting Aspects (CISM International Centre for Mechanical Sciences)

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A book on atmospheric convection treated in detail from different angles including the theoretical aspects of atmospheric deep convection and the weather phenomena related to convection. The problem of boundary conditions that result in severe convective weather patterns is explored within the framework of worldwide climatology and weather forecasting, including forecast verification, by means of their dynamic and thermodynamic properties. The book aims to bridge the gap between theory and its operational application both within the fields of weather forecasting and that of risk management. It addresses itself to meteorologists, physicists and weather forecasters, but will also be invaluable to PhD students attending courses on environment fluid dynamics and meteorology. Each chapter is practically self-contained and there are no propaedeutic sections that the reader needs to peruse before moving on to the more advanced ones.

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