Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Fundamental concepts and physical laws
- 2 Basic approximations and elementary flows
- 3 Vorticity and potential vorticity dynamics
- 4 Friction and boundary layers
- 5 Fundamentals of wave dynamics
- 6 Quasi-geostrophic theory and two-layer model
- 7 Dynamic adjustment
- 8 Instability theories
- 9 Stationary planetary wave dynamics
- 10 Wave-mean flow interaction
- 11 Equilibration dynamics of baroclinic waves
- 12 Nongeostrophic dynamics
- Appendix: Mathematical tools
- References
- Index
- Plate section
Appendix: Mathematical tools
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Fundamental concepts and physical laws
- 2 Basic approximations and elementary flows
- 3 Vorticity and potential vorticity dynamics
- 4 Friction and boundary layers
- 5 Fundamentals of wave dynamics
- 6 Quasi-geostrophic theory and two-layer model
- 7 Dynamic adjustment
- 8 Instability theories
- 9 Stationary planetary wave dynamics
- 10 Wave-mean flow interaction
- 11 Equilibration dynamics of baroclinic waves
- 12 Nongeostrophic dynamics
- Appendix: Mathematical tools
- References
- Index
- Plate section
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- Atmospheric Dynamics , pp. 458 - 475Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011