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Buoyant Convection in Geophysical Flows (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1998) Loot Price: R1,589
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Buoyant Convection in Geophysical Flows (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1998): Erich J Plate, E. E...

Buoyant Convection in Geophysical Flows (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1998)

Erich J Plate, E. E Fedorovich, Domingos X. Viegas, J.C. Wyngaard

Series: NATO Science Series C, 513

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Studies of convection in geophysical flows constitute an advanced and rapidly developing area of research that is relevant to problems of the natural environment. During the last decade, significant progress has been achieved in the field as a result of both experimental studies and numerical modelling. This led to the principal revision of the widely held view on buoyancy-driven turbulent flows comprising an organised mean component with superimposed chaotic turbulence. An intermediate type of motion, represented by coherent structures, has been found to play a key role in geophysical boundary layers and in larger scale atmospheric and hydrospheric circulations driven by buoyant forcing. New aspects of the interaction between convective motions and rotation have recently been discovered and investigated. Extensive experimental data have also been collected on the role of convection in cloud dynamics and microphysics. New theoretical concepts and approaches have been outlined regarding scaling and parameterization of physical processes in buoyancy-driven geophysical flows. The book summarizes interdisciplinary studies of buoyancy effects in different media (atmosphere and hydrosphere) over a wide range of scales (small scale phenomena in unstably stratified and convectively mixed layers to deep convection in the atmosphere and ocean), by different research methods (field measurements, laboratory simulations, numerical modelling), and within a variety of application areas (dispersion of pollutants, weather forecasting, hazardous phenomena associated with buoyant forcing).

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Imprint: Springer
Country of origin: Netherlands
Series: NATO Science Series C, 513
Release date: October 2012
First published: 1998
Editors: Erich J Plate • E. E Fedorovich • Domingos X. Viegas • J.C. Wyngaard
Dimensions: 240 x 160 x 26mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 491
Edition: Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1998
ISBN-13: 978-9401061254
Categories: Books > Science & Mathematics > Physics > Classical mechanics > General
Books > Earth & environment > Earth sciences > The hydrosphere > Oceanography (seas)
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LSN: 9401061254
Barcode: 9789401061254

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