Environmental Stratified Flows

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vii

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2. Internal Solitary Waves

   • Roger Grimshaw

   Pages 1-27

3. Internal Tide Transformation and Oceanic Internal Solitary Waves

   • Peter Holloway, Efim Pelinovsky, Tatiana Talipova

   Pages 29-60

4. Atmospheric Internal Solitary Waves

   • James W. Rottman, Roger Grimshaw

   Pages 61-88

5. Gravity Currents

   • James W. Rottman, P. F. Linden

   Pages 89-117

6. Stratified Flow Over Topography

   • Ronald B. Smith

   Pages 119-159

7. Turbulence in Stratified Fluids

   • H. J. S. Fernando

   Pages 161-189

8. Laboratory Studies of Continuously Stratified Flows Past Obstacles

   • Don L. Boyer, Andjelka Srdic-Mitrovic

   Pages 190-222

9. Elements of Instability Theory for Environmental Flows

   • Larry G. Redekopp

   Pages 223-281

10. Back Matter

    Pages 282-283

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The dynamics of flows in density-stratified fluids has been and remains now an important topic for scientific enquiry. Such flows arise in many contexts, ranging from industrial settings to the oceanic and atmospheric environments. It is the latter topic which is the focus of this book. Both the ocean and atmosphere are characterised by the basic vertical density stratification, and this feature can affect the dynamics on all scales ranging from the micro-scale to the planetary scale. The aim of this book is to provide a “state-of-the-art” account of stratified flows as they are relevant to the ocean and atmosphere with a primary focus on meso-scale phenomena; that is, on phenomena whose time and space scales are such that the density stratification is a dominant effect, so that frictional and diffusive effects on the one hand and the effects of the earth’s rotation on the other hand can be regarded as of less importance. This in turn leads to an emphasis on internal waves.

• Coast
• Ocean
• Oceanography
• Tide
• atmosphere
• fluid dynamics
• marine
• spheric
• air pollution and air quality

• Loughborough University, UK

  Roger Grimshaw

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