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Lagrangian Oceanography - Large-scale Transport and Mixing in the Ocean (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017)
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Lagrangian Oceanography - Large-scale Transport and Mixing in the Ocean (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017)
Series: Physics of Earth and Space Environments
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This book uses the Lagrangian approach, especially useful and
convenient for studying large-scale transport and mixing in the
ocean, to present a detailed view of ocean circulation. This
approach focuses on simulations and on monitoring the trajectories
of fluid particles, which are governed by advection equations. The
first chapter of the book is devoted to dynamical systems theory
methods, which provide the framework, methodology and key concepts
for the Lagrangian approach. The book then moves on to an analysis
of chaotic mixing and cross-stream transport in idealized models of
oceanic meandering currents like the Gulfstream in the Atlantic,
the Kuroshio in the Pacific, and Antarctic Circumpolar Current,
after which the current state of physical oceanography is reviewed.
The latter half of the book applies the techniques and methods
already described in order to study eddies, currents, fronts and
large-scale mixing and transport in the Far-Eastern seas and the
north-western part of the Pacific Ocean. Finally, the book
concludes with a discussion of Lagrangian simulation and monitoring
of water contamination after the Fukushima disaster of 2011. The
propagation of Fukushima-derived radionuclides, surface transport
across the Kuroshio Extension current, and the role of mesoscale
eddies in the transport of Fukushima-derived cesium isotopes in the
ocean are examined, and a comparison of simulation results with
actual measurements are presented.Written by some of the world
leaders in the application of Lagrangian methods in oceanography,
this title will be of benefit to the oceanographic community by
presenting the necessary background of the Lagrangian approach in
an accessible manner.
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