• Title: Introduction to Geophsical Fluid Dynamics: physical and numerical aspects
  • Author: Benoit Cushman-Roisin and Jean-Marie Beckers
  • Year: 1994
  • Publisher: Academic Press
  • Pages: 320
  • ISBN: 978-0133533019
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  • Contents: This book provides an introduction to geophyical fluids without requiring knowledge of fluid dynamics, and is distinctive in the attention paid to data, appropriate numerical methods and scales. It does not include extensive material on global circulation models however, at least in the edition I was able to access. It is very well illustrated and readible.

    The book includes 22 chapters giving an introduction giving an overview of the contents, the Coriolis force, the equations of fluid motion, equations governing geophysical flows with boundary conditions, diffusive processes, advective and diffusive transport, vorticity dynamics, the Ekman layer, barotropic waves and instability, stratification including turbulence, layered models, internal and Lee waves, stratified and rotating flows, quasi-geostrophic dynamics and instabilities, fronts, jets and vortices, the atomspheric general circulation, general circulation of the ocean, equatorial dynamics, and data assimilation.

    There are three appendices giving the equations in spherical coordinates, wave kinematics, and a quite extensive summary of related numerical schemes.