Overview
- Is based on basic mechanical principles, vector and tensor calculus
- Contains mathematical derivations based on sequentially presented building blocks
- Explains derived equations and re-interprets their solutions in terms of physical principles
- Presents graphical illustrations of introduced concepts and representative images
Part of the book series: Springer Textbooks in Earth Sciences, Geography and Environment (STEGE)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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About this book
1. development of the equations of motion for an inhomogeneous fluid
2. review of thermodynamics
3. thermodynamic and kinetic energy equations4. equations of state for the atmosphere and the ocean, salt, and moisture effects
5. concepts of potential temperature and potential density
6. Boussinesq and quasi-geostrophic approximations7. conservation equations for vorticity, mechanical and thermal energy instability theories, internal waves, mixing, convection, double-diffusion, stratified turbulence, fronts, intrusions, gravity currents
Graduate students will be able to learn and apply the basic theory of geophysical fluid dynamics of inhomogeneous fluids on a rotating earth, including:
1. derivation of the governing equations for a stratified fluid starting from basic principles of physics
2. review of thermodynamics, equations of state, isothermal, adiabatic, isentropic changes
3. scaling of the equations, Boussinesq approximation, applied to the ocean and the atmosphere
4. examples of stratified flows at geophysical scales, steady and unsteady motions, inertia-gravity internal waves, quasi-geostrophic theory
5. vorticity and energy conservation in stratified fluids
6.boundary layer convection in stratified containers and basins
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Özsoy is Professor of Physical Oceanography. In 1977–1978, he served as Staff Engineer at Tetra Tech Inc., Jacksonville, FL, USA; since 1978 he has been Professor of physical oceanography at Institute of Marine Sciences, METU, Erdemli, Mersin, Turkey; following an academic and research career as Visiting Scientist at IMGA-CNR, Modena, Italy in 1989; Visiting Professor, UNESCO and Fulbright Fellow at Division of Applied Science at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA in 1989–1990; Visiting Scientist at University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy in 2014–2015; Invited Professor at EIES-ITU in İstanbul, Turkey in 2015–2017; an Emeritus living in Ankara, Turkey after 2017.
Research interests and contributions include ocean modeling of the Levantine Basin of the Eastern Mediterranean, Black Sea, Caspian Sea, Turkish Straits System; circulation, cascading flows across shelf seas of the Eastern Mediterranean and Black Sea; dynamics, transport modelingof Bosphorus / Dardanelles Straits of the Turkish Straits System; quasi-geostrophic dynamics of seas with islands; coupled hydrodynamics-ecosystem modeling; double diffusive convection, boundary and interior mixing; operational oceanographic and atmospheric observing and forecasting systems; atmospheric transport of aerosol dust; oceanographic use of tracers for analyses of deep water renewal and transport; transport at tidal inlets; modeling of Eastern Mediterranean tsunami; climate variability and climate change /in the Seas of the Old World; history of oceanography - 17th century work of Marsili in the Bosphorus.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Geophysical Fluid Dynamics II
Book Subtitle: Stratified / Rotating Fluid Dynamics of the Atmosphere—Ocean
Authors: Emin Özsoy
Series Title: Springer Textbooks in Earth Sciences, Geography and Environment
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74934-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-74933-0Published: 14 August 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-74936-1Published: 15 August 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-74934-7Published: 13 August 2021
Series ISSN: 2510-1307
Series E-ISSN: 2510-1315
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 323
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 96 illustrations in colour
Topics: Oceanography, Meteorology, Coastal Sciences, Hydrology/Water Resources, Geophysics and Environmental Physics