Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Notation
- PART I FUNDAMENTALS OF GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS
- 1 Equations of Motion
- 2 Effects of Rotation and Stratification
- 3 Shallow Water Systems
- 4 Vorticity and Potential Vorticity
- 5 Geostrophic Theory
- PART II WAVES, INSTABILITIES AND TURBULENCE
- PART III LARGE-SCALE ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION
- PART IV LARGE-SCALE OCEANIC CIRCULATION
- References
- Index
1 - Equations of Motion
from PART I - FUNDAMENTALS OF GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 June 2017
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Notation
- PART I FUNDAMENTALS OF GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS
- 1 Equations of Motion
- 2 Effects of Rotation and Stratification
- 3 Shallow Water Systems
- 4 Vorticity and Potential Vorticity
- 5 Geostrophic Theory
- PART II WAVES, INSTABILITIES AND TURBULENCE
- PART III LARGE-SCALE ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION
- PART IV LARGE-SCALE OCEANIC CIRCULATION
- References
- Index
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid DynamicsFundamentals and Large-Scale Circulation, pp. 3 - 54Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2017