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Physics of Lakes - Volume 2: Lakes as Oscillators (Paperback, 2011 ed.)
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Physics of Lakes - Volume 2: Lakes as Oscillators (Paperback, 2011 ed.)
Series: Advances in Geophysical and Environmental Mechanics and Mathematics, 2
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The overwhelming focus of this 2nd volume of "Physics of Lakes" is
adequately expressed by its subtitle "Lakes as Oscillators". It
deals with barotropic and baroclinic waves in homogeneous and
stratified lakes on the rotating Earth and comprises 12 chapters,
starting with rotating shallow-water waves, demonstrating their
classification into gravity and Rossby waves for homogeneous and
stratified water bodies. This leads to gravity waves in bounded
domains of constant depth, Kelvin, Poincare and Sverdrup waves,
reflection of such waves in gulfs and rectangles and their
description in sealed basins as barotropic 'inertial waves proper'.
The particular application to gravity waves in circular and
elliptical basins of constant depth leads to the description of
Kelvin-type and Poincare-type waves and their balanced description
in basins of arbitrary geometry on the rotating Earth.
Consideration of two-, three- and n-layer fluids with sharp
interfaces give rise to the description of gravity waves of higher
order baroclinicity with experimental corroboration in a laboratory
flume and e.g. in Lake of Lugano, Lake Banyoles and Lake Biwa.
Barotropic wave modes in Lake Onega with complex geometry show that
data and computational output require careful interpretation.
Moreover, a summer field campaign in Lake of Lugano and its
two-layer modal analysis show that careful statistical analyses of
the data are requested to match data with computational results.
Three chapters are devoted to topographic Rossby waves. Conditions
are outlined for which these waves are negligibly affected by
baroclinicity. Three classes of these large period modes are
identified: channel modes, so-called Ball modes and bay modes,
often with periods which lie very close together. The last chapter
deals with an entire class of Chrystal-type equations for
barotropic waves in elongated basins which incorporate the effects
of the rotation of the Earth.
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