Dynamics of the Equatorial Ocean

John P. Boyd (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

XXIV, 517 Seiten

2018 | 1. Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018
Springer Berlin (Verlag)
978-3-662-57235-1 (ISBN)

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This book is the first comprehensive introduction to the theory of equatorially-confined waves and currents in the ocean. Among the topics treated are inertial and shear instabilities, wave generation by coastal reflection, semiannual and annual cycles in the tropic sea, transient equatorial waves, vertically-propagating beams, equatorial Ekman layers, the Yoshida jet model, generation of coastal Kelvin waves from equatorial waves by reflection, Rossby solitary waves, and Kelvin frontogenesis. A series of appendices on midlatitude theories for waves, jets and wave reflections add further material to assist the reader in understanding the differences between the same phenomenon in the equatorial zone versus higher latitudes.

An Observational Overview of the Equatorial Ocean.- Basic Equations and Normal Modes.- Kelvin, Yanai, Rossby and Gravity Waves.- The "Long Wave" Approximation & Geostrophy.- Coastally Trapped Waves and Ray-Tracing.- Reflections and Boundaries.- Response of the Equatorial Ocean to Periodic Forcing.- Impulsive Forcing and Spin-up.- Yoshida Jet and Theories of the Undercurrent.- Stratified Models of Mean Currents.- Waves and Beams in the Continuously Stratified Ocean.- Stable Waves in Shear.- Inertial Instability and Deep Equatorial Jets.- Kelvin Wave Instability.- Nonmodal Instability.- Nonlinear Equatorial Waves.- Nonlinear Wavepackets and Nonlinear Schroedinger Equation

Erscheint lt. Verlag	15.8.2018
Zusatzinfo	XXIV, 517 p. 159 illus., 27 illus. in color.
Verlagsort	Berlin
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	825 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geophysik
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Hydrologie / Ozeanografie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Meteorologie / Klimatologie
Schlagworte	Coastally Trapped Waves • Deep Equatorial Jets • El Nino/Southern Oscillation • Equatorial Ocean • Nonlinear EquatorialWaves
ISBN-10	3-662-57235-4 / 3662572354
ISBN-13	978-3-662-57235-1 / 9783662572351
Zustand	Neuware