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  title info:
    title: Lagrangian Transport in Geophysical Jets and Waves
    sub title: The Dynamical Systems Approach
  name:
    name part: Samelson, Roger M.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Wiggins, Stephen.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xxu
    date issued: 2006
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: X, 150 p. online resource.
  abstract: This book provides an accessible introduction to a new set of methods for the analysis of Lagrangian motion in geophysical flows. These methods were originally developed in the abstract mathematical setting of dynamical systems theory, through a geometric approach to differential equations. Despite the recent developments in this field and the existence of a substantial body of work on geophysical fluid problems in the dynamical systems and geophysical literature, this is the first introductory text that presents these methods in the context of geophysical fluid flow. The book is organized into seven chapters; the first introduces the geophysical context and the mathematical models of geophysical fluid flow that are explored in subsequent chapters. The second and third cover the simplest case of steady flow, develop basic mathematical concepts and definitions, and touch on some important topics from the classical theory of Hamiltonian systems. The fundamental elements and methods of Lagrangian transport analysis in time-dependent flows that are the main subject of the book are described in the fourth, fifth, and sixth chapters. The seventh chapter gives a brief survey of some of the rapidly evolving research in geophysical fluid dynamics that makes use of this new approach. Related supplementary material, including a glossary and an introduction to numerical methods, is given in the appendices. This book will prove useful to graduate students, research scientists, and educators in any branch of geophysical fluid science in which the motion and transport of fluid, and of materials carried by the fluid, is of interest. It will also prove interesting and useful to the applied mathematicians who seek an introduction to an intriguing and rapidly developing area of geophysical fluid dynamics. The book was jointly authored by a geophysical fluid dynamicist, Roger M. Samelson of the College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences at Oregon State University, USA and an applied m…
  table of contents: Steadily Translating Waves and Meanders -- Integrability of Lagrangian Motion -- Fluctuating Waves and Meanders -- Material Manifolds, Flow Regimes, and Fluid Exchange -- Lobe Transport and Flux -- Transport and Dynamics.
  note: by Roger M. Samelson, Stephen Wiggins.
  subject:
    topic: Mathematics
  subject:
    topic: Earth sciences
  subject:
    topic: Dynamics
  subject:
    topic: Ergodic theory
  subject:
    topic: Continuum physics
  subject:
    topic: Mathematics
  subject:
    topic: Dynamical Systems and Ergodic Theory
  subject:
    topic: Earth Sciences, general
  subject:
    topic: Classical Continuum Physics
  classification: QA313
  classification: 515.39
  classification: 515.48
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: Interdisciplinary Applied Mathematics, 31
  identifier: 9780387462134
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-46213-4
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    record creation date: 100301
    record change date: 20151204142008.0
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