TY  - BOOK
AU  - Flor,Jan-Bert
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - Fronts, Waves and Vortices in Geophysical Flows
T2  - Lecture Notes in Physics,
SN  - 9783642115875
AV  - QC801-809 
U1  - 550 23
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Berlin, Heidelberg
PB  - Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Imprint: Springer
KW  - Geography
KW  - Physical geography
KW  - Meteorology
KW  - Oceanography
KW  - Hydraulic engineering
KW  - Earth Sciences
KW  - Geophysics/Geodesy
KW  - Fluid- and Aerodynamics
KW  - Engineering Fluid Dynamics
KW  - Environmental Physics
KW  - Meteorology/Climatology
N1  - Dynamics of Vortices in Rotating and Stratified Fluids -- Stability of Quasi-Two-Dimensional Vortices -- Oceanic Vortices -- Lagrangian Dynamics of Fronts, Vortices and Waves: Understanding the (Semi-)geostrophic Adjustment -- Wave–Vortex Interactions
N2  - Most well known structures in planetary atmospheres and the Earth’s oceans are jets or fronts interacting with vortices on a wide range of scales. The transition from one state to another, such as in unbalanced or adjustment flows, involves the generation of waves as well as the interaction of coherent structures with these waves. This book presents a fluid mechanics perspective to the dynamics of fronts and vortices and their interaction with waves in geophysical flows. It provides a basic physical background for modeling coherent structures in a geophysical context, and it gives essential information on advanced topics such as spontaneous wave emission and wavemomentum transfer in geophysical flows. Based on a set of lectures by leading specialists, this text is targeted at graduate students, researchers and engineers in geophysics and environmental fluid mechanics
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-11587-5
ER  -