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" Modeling Atmospheric and Oceanic Flows : "
Thomas von Larcher, Paul D. Williams, editors
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589239
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b418458
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Modeling Atmospheric and Oceanic Flows : : Insights from Laboratory Experiments and Numerical Simulations /\ Thomas von Larcher, Paul D. Williams, editors
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Geophysical monograph,; 205
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xiii, 353 pages, [16] pages of plates :: illustrations (some color), graphs ;; 29 cm
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9781118855935
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: 1118855930
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Introduction: Simulations of natural flows in the laboratory and on a computer -- Section I: Baroclinic-driven flows: General circulation of planetary atmospheres: insights from rotating annulus and related experiments -- Primary flow transitions in the baroclinic annulus: Prandtl number effects -- Amplitude vacillation in baroclinic flows -- Section II: Balanced and unbalanced flows: Rotation effects on wall-bounded flows: some laboratory experiments -- Altimetry in a GFD laboratory and flows on the polar Beta-plane -- Instabilities of shallow-water flows with vertical shear in the rotating annulus -- Laboratory experiments on flows over bottom topography -- Direct numerical simulations of laboratory-scale stratified turbulence -- Section III: Atmospheric Flows: Numerical simulation (DNS, LES) of geophysical laboratory experiments: quasi-biennial oscillation (QBO) analogue and simulations toward Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO) analogue -- Internal waves in laboratory experiments -- Frontal instabilities at density-shear interfaces in rotating two-layer stratified fluids -- Section IV: Oceanic Flows: Large-amplitude coastal shelf waves -- Laboratory experiments with abrupt thermohaline transitions and oscillations -- Oceanic island wake flows in the laboratory -- Section V: Lagrangian methods in experimental fluid mechanics -- A high-resolution method for direct numerical simulation of instabilities and transitions in a baroclinic cavity -- Orthogonal decomposition methods to analyze PIV, LDV, and thermography data of thermally driven rotating annulus laboratory experiments
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Atmospheric physics
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Oceanography
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Larcher, Thomas von
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Williams, Paul D., (Paul David),1977-
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