Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Dedications: Raymond Hide and Gareth P. Williams
- I Introduction
- 1 The World of Jets
- II Zonal Jets in Nature
- 2 Terrestrial Atmospheres
- 3 Oceans
- 4 Gas Giants
- 5 Exoplanets and the Sun
- III Jets in Laboratories
- 6 Zonal Jet Flows in the Laboratory: An Introduction
- 7 Convectively Driven Turbulence, Rossby Waves and Zonal Jets: Experiments on the Coriolis Platform
- 8 Turbulence, Rossby Waves and Zonal Jets on the Polar β-Plane: Experiments with Laboratory Altimetry
- 9 Zonal Jets in the Laboratory: Experiments with Electromagnetically Forced Flows
- IV Zonal Flows in Magnetically Confined Plasmas
- 10 Theory
- 11 Experiments
- V Genesis and Maintenance of Zonal Jets: Turbulence and Instabilities
- 12 General Results on Zonation in Rotating Systems with a β-Effect and the Electromagnetic Force
- 13 Barotropic and Zonostrophic Turbulence
- 14 Zonal Jet Formation by Potential Vorticity Mixing at Large and Small Scales
- 15 Radiating Instability
- 16 Modulational Instability in Basic Plasma and Geophysical Models
- 17 β-Plume Mechanism of Zonal Jet Creation by a Spatially Localized Forcing
- 18 Meridional Propagation of Zonal Jets in Ocean Gyres
- 19 Dynamics of Baroclinic Multiple Zonal Jets
- VI Genesis and Maintenance of Zonal Jets: Statistical Theories
- 20 Statistical Closures and Zonal Flows
- 21 Direct Statistical Simulation of a Jet
- 22 Zonal Flows as Statistical Equilibria
- 23 Zonostrophy and Other Quadratic Invariants in Drift and Quasi-Geostrophic Wave Turbulence
- 24 Kinetic Theory and Quasi-Linear Theories of Jet Dynamics
- 25 Statistical State Dynamics: A New Perspective on Turbulence in Shear Flow
- 26 Zonal Flow as Pattern Formation
- 27 Emergence of Nonzonal Coherent Structures
- VII Material Transport in Flows with Jets
- 28 Anisotropic and Inhomogeneous Eddy-Induced Transport in Flows with Jets
- 29 Turbulence, Diffusion and Mixing Barriers in Flows with Zonal Jets
- References
- Index
25 - Statistical State Dynamics: A New Perspective on Turbulence in Shear Flow
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 February 2019
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Dedications: Raymond Hide and Gareth P. Williams
- I Introduction
- 1 The World of Jets
- II Zonal Jets in Nature
- 2 Terrestrial Atmospheres
- 3 Oceans
- 4 Gas Giants
- 5 Exoplanets and the Sun
- III Jets in Laboratories
- 6 Zonal Jet Flows in the Laboratory: An Introduction
- 7 Convectively Driven Turbulence, Rossby Waves and Zonal Jets: Experiments on the Coriolis Platform
- 8 Turbulence, Rossby Waves and Zonal Jets on the Polar β-Plane: Experiments with Laboratory Altimetry
- 9 Zonal Jets in the Laboratory: Experiments with Electromagnetically Forced Flows
- IV Zonal Flows in Magnetically Confined Plasmas
- 10 Theory
- 11 Experiments
- V Genesis and Maintenance of Zonal Jets: Turbulence and Instabilities
- 12 General Results on Zonation in Rotating Systems with a β-Effect and the Electromagnetic Force
- 13 Barotropic and Zonostrophic Turbulence
- 14 Zonal Jet Formation by Potential Vorticity Mixing at Large and Small Scales
- 15 Radiating Instability
- 16 Modulational Instability in Basic Plasma and Geophysical Models
- 17 β-Plume Mechanism of Zonal Jet Creation by a Spatially Localized Forcing
- 18 Meridional Propagation of Zonal Jets in Ocean Gyres
- 19 Dynamics of Baroclinic Multiple Zonal Jets
- VI Genesis and Maintenance of Zonal Jets: Statistical Theories
- 20 Statistical Closures and Zonal Flows
- 21 Direct Statistical Simulation of a Jet
- 22 Zonal Flows as Statistical Equilibria
- 23 Zonostrophy and Other Quadratic Invariants in Drift and Quasi-Geostrophic Wave Turbulence
- 24 Kinetic Theory and Quasi-Linear Theories of Jet Dynamics
- 25 Statistical State Dynamics: A New Perspective on Turbulence in Shear Flow
- 26 Zonal Flow as Pattern Formation
- 27 Emergence of Nonzonal Coherent Structures
- VII Material Transport in Flows with Jets
- 28 Anisotropic and Inhomogeneous Eddy-Induced Transport in Flows with Jets
- 29 Turbulence, Diffusion and Mixing Barriers in Flows with Zonal Jets
- References
- Index
- Type
- Chapter
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- Zonal JetsPhenomenology, Genesis, and Physics, pp. 380 - 400Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019
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