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Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics: Fundamentals and Large-scale Circulation
Abstract
Fluid dynamics is fundamental to our understanding of the atmosphere and oceans. Although many of the same principles of fluid dynamics apply to both the atmosphere and oceans, textbooks tend to concentrate on the atmosphere, the ocean, or the theory of geophysical fluid dynamics (GFD). This textbook provides a comprehensive unified treatment of atmospheric and oceanic fluid dynamics. The book introduces the fundamentals of geophysical fluid dynamics, including rotation and stratification, vorticity and potential vorticity, and scaling and approximations. It discusses baroclinic and barotropic instabilities, wave-mean flow interactions and turbulence, and the general circulation of the atmosphere and ocean. Student problems and exercises are included at the end of each chapter. Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics: Fundamentals and Large-Scale Circulation will be an invaluable graduate textbook on advanced courses in GFD, meteorology, atmospheric science and oceanography, and an excellent review volume for researchers. Additional resources are available at www.cambridge.org/9780521849692.
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“In the absence of dissipation, we expect the material conservation of potential vorticity (PV) (Vallis 2006, section 4.5).”
From Zonal jets at the laboratory scale: hysteresis and Rossby waves resonance (2021) · cites this paper as Vallis 2006
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“The only consensus is that the β -effect, arising from the variation of the Coriolis effect with latitude (Vallis 2006), is responsible for the anisotropisation of the turbulent flow.”
From Zonal jets at the laboratory scale: hysteresis and Rossby waves resonance (2021) · cites this paper as Vallis 2006
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“It is now believed to be the primary mechanism of westerlies formation in the midlatitude atmosphere (Vallis 2006, chapter 12).”
From Zonal jets at the laboratory scale: hysteresis and Rossby waves resonance (2021) · cites this paper as Vallis 2006
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“To do so, we use the classical quasigeostrophic (QG) approximation to reduce the experiment to its 2D β -plane analog (Vallis 2006, p. 67).”
From Zonal jets at the laboratory scale: hysteresis and Rossby waves resonance (2021) · cites this paper as Vallis 2006, p. 67
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“Under this scale, the advective term dominates and above it the β -term is dominant.”
From Zonal jets at the laboratory scale: hysteresis and Rossby waves resonance (2021) · cites this paper as Vallis 2006
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“In the Earth's oceans, if we assume typical phase speeds of 0.25 m/s (Vallis 2006, p.233), then the zonal flow could be sub-resonant since zonal jets in the ocean have typical speeds of a few centimetres per second (Cornillon et al. 2019).”
From Zonal jets at the laboratory scale: hysteresis and Rossby waves resonance (2021) · cites this paper as Vallis 2006
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“that for quasigeostrophic conditions in a stratified atmosphere with no vertical shear ( / 0 u z ) obeys the dispersion relationship ( Vallis , 2006; Sánchez-Lavega , 2011)”
From The long‐term steady motion of Saturn's hexagon and the stability of its enclosed jet stream under seasonal changes (2014) · cites this paper as Vallis, 2006
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“If they are preferentially generated in prograde jets, they lead to angular momentum transport from retrograde into prograde jets, which can maintain the jets against dissipation (e.g., Vallis 2006;O'Gorman and Schneider 2008).”
From Mechanisms of Jet Formation on the Giant Planets (2010) · cites this paper as Vallis 2006
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Metadata
- Authors
- Vallis, G. K.
- Affiliations
- Princeton University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Vallis, Geoffrey K.
- ORCID
- Vallis, Geoffrey K.
- Venue
- Cambridge University Press eBooks
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Published
- 2006-11-06
- OpenAlex
- W4232473186
- Cited by
- 1,599
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 38 · 2025: 56 · 2024: 60 · 2023: 53 · 2022: 112 · 2021: 88 · 2020: 135 · 2019: 118 · 2018: 124 · 2017: 118 · 2016: 116 · 2015: 83 · 2014: 124 · 2013: 95 · 2012: 49
- FWCI
- 24.95
- Type
- book
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Cambridge University Press eBooks (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Oceanography › Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Atmospheric Science › Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Computational Mechanics › Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows
- Keywords
- geophysical fluid dynamics, rotation, stratification, vorticity, potential vorticity, baroclinic instability, barotropic instability, wave-mean flow interaction, turbulent flow, general circulation, large-scale circulation
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