Transport and Mixing in Geophysical Flows

By Jeffrey B. Weiss

Book Overview

Theory.- Scalar Decay in Chaotic Mixing.- Transport of Inert and Reactive Particles: Lagrangian Statistics in Turbulent Flow.- Diffusion and Reaction-Diffusion in Steady Flows at Large P clet Numbers.- An Introduction to Radiative Transfer for Geophysicists.- Coherent Vortices and Tracer Transport.- Experiments and Observations.- Dispersion and Mixing in Quasi-two-dimensional Rotating Flows.- Quantifying Inhomogeneous, Instantaneous, Irreversible Transport Using Passive Tracer Field as a Coordinate.- Lagrangian Statistics from Oceanic and Atmospheric Observations.- The Modulation of Biological Production by Oceanic Mesoscale Turbulence.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3642094481
• ISBN13: 9783642094484
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 262 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"