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Joseph Pedlosky

    Geophysical Fluid Dynamics: Second Edition
    • Geophysical Fluid Dynamics: Second Edition

      • 724 stránok
      • 26 hodin čítania

      This second edition of the widely acclaimed Geophysical Fluid Dynamics by Joseph Pedlosky offers the reader a high-level, unified treatment of the theory of the dynamics of large-scale motions of the oceans and atmosphere. Revised and updated, it includes expanded discussions of * the fundamentals of geostrophic turbulence * the theory of wave-mean flow interaction * thermocline theory * finite amplitude barocline instability.

      Geophysical Fluid Dynamics: Second Edition1987