Geophysical Fluid Dynamics: Notes on the 1960 Summer Study Program. Volume III. Student Lectures

摘要

Contents: Ocean current models using potential vorticity; A comparison of steady fluid motion maintained by a non-uniform wind-stress distribution and steady motion maintained by a non-uniform temperature distribution; A simplified model of flow over an obstacle; The propagation of shallow water waves in a viscous fluid in a rotating system; Convection of water maintained by cooling from below; Stability of salt fingers; Stability of thermally stratified shear flows.