Lagrangian Oceanography

1. Front Matter

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2. The Dynamical Systems Theory Approach to Transport and Mixing in Fluids

   • Sergey V. Prants, Michael Yu. Uleysky, Maxim V. Budyansky

   Pages 1-17

3. Chaotic Transport and Mixing in Idealized Models of Oceanic Currents

   • Sergey V. Prants, Michael Yu. Uleysky, Maxim V. Budyansky

   Pages 19-81

4. Oceans from the Space and Operational Oceanography

   • Sergey V. Prants, Michael Yu. Uleysky, Maxim V. Budyansky

   Pages 83-94

5. Lagrangian Tools to Study Transport and Mixing in the Ocean

   • Sergey V. Prants, Michael Yu. Uleysky, Maxim V. Budyansky

   Pages 95-115

6. Transport of Subtropical Waters in the Japan Sea

   • Sergey V. Prants, Michael Yu. Uleysky, Maxim V. Budyansky

   Pages 117-139

7. Dynamics of Eddies in the Ocean

   • Sergey V. Prants, Michael Yu. Uleysky, Maxim V. Budyansky

   Pages 141-184

8. Fukushima-Derived Cesium Isotopes in the North Western Pacific: Direct Observation and Altimetry-Based Simulation of Propagation

   • Sergey V. Prants, Michael Yu. Uleysky, Maxim V. Budyansky

   Pages 185-221

9. Lagrangian Fronts and Coherent Structures Favorable for Fishery and Foraging Strategy of Top Marine Predators

   • Sergey V. Prants, Michael Yu. Uleysky, Maxim V. Budyansky

   Pages 223-256

10. Erratum to: Chaotic Transport and Mixing in Idealized Models of Oceanic Currents

    • Sergey V. Prants, Michael Yu. Uleysky, Maxim V. Budyansky

    Pages E1-E2

11. Back Matter

    Pages 257-273

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This book uses the Lagrangian approach, especially useful and convenient for studying large-scale transport and mixing in the ocean, to present a detailed view of ocean circulation. This approach focuses on simulations and on monitoring the trajectories of fluid particles, which are governed by advection equations. The first chapter of the book is devoted to dynamical systems theory methods, which provide the framework, methodology and key concepts for the Lagrangian approach. The book then moves on to an analysis of chaotic mixing and cross-stream transport in idealized models of oceanic meandering currents like the Gulfstream in the Atlantic, the Kuroshio in the Pacific, and Antarctic Circumpolar Current, after which the current state of physical oceanography is reviewed. The latter half of the book applies the techniques and methods already described in order to study eddies, currents, fronts and large-scale mixing and transport in the Far-Eastern seas and the north-western part of the Pacific Ocean. Finally, the book concludes with a discussion of Lagrangian simulation and monitoring of water contamination after the Fukushima disaster of 2011. The propagation of Fukushima-derived radionuclides, surface transport across the Kuroshio Extension current, and the role of mesoscale eddies in the transport of Fukushima-derived cesium isotopes in the ocean are examined, and a comparison of simulation results with actual measurements are presented.Written by some of the world leaders in the application of Lagrangian methods in oceanography, this title will be of benefit to the oceanographic community by presenting the necessary background of the Lagrangian approach in an accessible manner.

• lagrangian method oceanography
• lagrangian hydrodynamics
• lagrangian advection scheme
• lagrangian transport and mixing
• fluid particle trajectory simulation
• ocean mixing and transport
• synoptic lagrangian maps
• fluid- and aerodynamics

• Pacific Oceanological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Laboratory of Nonlinear Dynamical Systems, Vladivostok, Russia

  Sergey V. Prants, Michael Yu. Uleysky, Maxim V. Budyansky

Sergey V. Prants is the Head of the Department of Oceanic and Atmospheric Physics and Head of the Laboratory of Nonlinear Dynamical Systems of the Pacific Oceanological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences. His research interests comprise of nonlinear dynamical processes, Hamiltonian and dissipative chaos, self-organization, and dynamical symmetries. He's the author of five books and one hundred papers in international journals.

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