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Fundamentals of Geophysical Hydrodynamics

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    Chapter 1 Equations of Motion of an Ideal Incompressible Fluid; Kelvin’s Circulation Theorem
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    Chapter 2 Potential Vorticity and the Conservation Laws of Energy and Momentum for a Stratified Incompressible Fluid
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    Chapter 3 Helicity; Equations of Gas Dynamics; The Ertel Invariant
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    Chapter 4 The Rossby–Obukhov Potential Vortex; Energy and Momentum of a Compressible Fluid; Hydrodynamic Approximation of Equations of Gas Dynamics
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    Chapter 5 Equations of Motion of a Rotating Fluid; The Notion of a Geophysical Flow
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    Chapter 6 What is Geophysical Hydrodynamics?
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    Chapter 7 The Obukhov–Charney Equation; Rossby Waves
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    Chapter 8 Resonant Interaction of Rossby Waves; Helmholtz and Obukhov Singular Vortices; The Kirchhoff Equations
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    Chapter 9 Equations of Quasi-geostrophic Baroclinic Motion
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    Chapter 10 The Energy Balance, Available Potential Energy, and Rossby Waves in a Baroclinic Atmosphere
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    Chapter 11 Important Remarks on the Description of Baroclinic Geophysical Flows
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    Chapter 12 The Notion of Dynamical Stability via the Example of Motion of a Rigid Body with a Fixed Point
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    Chapter 13 Stating the Linear Stability Problem for Plane-Parallel Flows of Ideal Homogeneous and Nonhomogeneous Fluids
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    Chapter 14 The Method of Normal Modes and Its Simplest Applications in the Theory of Linear Stability of Plane-Parallel Flows
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    Chapter 15 The Taylor Problem of Stability of Motion of a Stratified Fluid with a Linear Velocity Profile
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    Chapter 16 Applications of Integral Relations and Conservation Laws in the Theory of Hydrodynamic Stability
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    Chapter 17 Stability of Zonal Flows of a Barotropic Atmosphere; The Notion of Barotropic Instability
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    Chapter 18 The Concept of Baroclinic Instability; The Eady Model
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    Chapter 19 Equations of Motion of a Viscous Fluid; The Boundary Conditions
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    Chapter 20 Friction Mechanisms in Global Geophysical Flows; Quasi-geostrophic Equation for Transformation of Potential Vorticity
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    Chapter 21 Kolmogorov Flow and the Role of Surface Friction
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    Chapter 22 Stability of Quasi-two-dimensional Shear Flows with Arbitrary Velocity Profiles
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    Chapter 23 Friction in a Turbulent Boundary Layer
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    Chapter 24 Hydrodynamic Interpretation of the Euler Equations of Motion of a Classical Gyroscope and Their Invariants
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    Chapter 25 Mechanical Interpretation of the Oberbeck–Boussinesq Equations of Motion of an Incompressible Stratified Fluid in a Gravitational Field
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    Chapter 26 Motion of Barotropic and Baroclinic Tops as Mechanical Prototypes for the General Circulation of Barotropic and Baroclinic Inviscid Atmospheres
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    Chapter 27 Toy Model for General Circulation of a Viscous Atmosphere
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Title
Fundamentals of Geophysical Hydrodynamics
Published by
Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, January 2013
DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-31034-8
ISBNs
978-3-64-231033-1, 978-3-64-231034-8, 978-3-64-244005-2
Authors

Dolzhansky, Felix V., Felix V. Dolzhansky

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A.E. Gledzer, E.B. Gledzer

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United States 1 6%
Unknown 15 94%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 5 31%
Student > Master 3 19%
Researcher 3 19%
Professor > Associate Professor 2 13%
Student > Postgraduate 2 13%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 1 6%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Physics and Astronomy 5 31%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 3 19%
Computer Science 2 13%
Engineering 2 13%
Energy 1 6%
Other 1 6%
Unknown 2 13%