Ocean Dynamics

DOI10.1007/978-3-642-23450-7zbMath1296.86001OpenAlexW4256121548MaRDI QIDQ3094769

Dirk J. Olbers, Carsten Eden, Jürgen Willebrand

Publication date: 26 October 2011

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23450-7

zbMATH Keywords

stratificationBoussinesq approximationRossby wavesdispersionvector analysisdifferential equationsocean circulationlong waveswaveguidesgroup velocityRossby numberpotential vorticitygravity waveslinear wavestensor analysislocal thermodynamic equilibriumsound wavesspherical coordinate systemmixing processesLagrangian picturethermohaline circulationplanetary waveswave trainswind stressclassical thermodynamicswave propagation in inhomogeneous mediawave-wave interactionoceanic turbulenceatmospheric thermodynamicstopographic wavesclassical hydrodynamicseddy turbulenceforced wave problemsgeostrophic equilibriumhydrostatic modelKolmogorov's theory of turbulencemode filteringoblate spheroidal coordinate systemoceanic meridional overturningplane-wave propagationstatistical conceptswindstress

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics (35Q35) Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography (86A05) Dynamical systems in solid mechanics (37N15) Water waves, gravity waves; dispersion and scattering, nonlinear interaction (76B15) Introductory exposition (textbooks, tutorial papers, etc.) pertaining to geophysics (86-01) Turbulence (76Fxx) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to fluid mechanics (76-02)

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