Geophysical Fluid Dynamics

Joseph Pedlosky

Penerbit : Springer-Verlag

Tahun : 1979

This book is a systematic theoretical introduction to geophysical fluid dynamics, focusing on the large-scale motion of the atmosphere and oceans. It explains the physical and mathematical foundations needed to understand rotating stratified fluids, including the Rossby number, density stratification, rotating coordinate frames, Coriolis acceleration, vorticity, circulation, potential vorticity, geostrophic motion, thermal wind, shallow-water theory, Rossby waves, Kelvin waves, frictional flow, Ekman layers, and boundary-layer processes. The work is structured as an advanced undergraduate and graduate-level text, based on a core curriculum in geophysical fluid dynamics. Its major chapters discuss inviscid shallow-water theory, viscous and frictional flow, wind-driven ocean circulation, quasigeostrophic motion of stratified fluids on a sphere, instability theory, and ageostrophic motion. The book is especially relevant for students and researchers in meteorology, oceanography, geophysics, and applied fluid mechanics because it presents atmospheric and oceanic circulation through a unified dynamical framework.

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