In this book, the methodology of dynamical systems theory is
applied to investigate the physics of the global ocean circulation.
Topics include the dynamics of the Gulf Stream in the Atlantic
Ocean, the stability of the thermohaline circulation and the El
NiAo/Southern Oscillation phenomenon in the Tropical Pacific. On
the other hand, the book also deals with the numerical methods for
applying bifurcation analysis on large dimensional dynamical
systems, with thousands or more degrees of freedom, which arise
through discretization of ocean models. The novel approach in
understanding the phenomena of climate variability is through a
systematic analysis within a hierarchy of models using these
techniques. In this way, a nice overview is obtained of the
relations between the results of the different models within the
hierarchy. Mechanistic description of the physics of the results is
provided and, where possible, links with results of
state-of-the-art models and observations are sought. The reader is
expected to have a background in basic incompressible fluid
dynamics and applied mathematics, although the level of the text is
mixed and sometimes quite introductory. Each chapter is rather
self-contained and many details of derivations are provided. The
book is aimed at graduate students and researchers in meteorology,
oceanography, and related fields who are interested in tackling
fundamental problems in dynamical oceanography and climate
dynamics.
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