Lagrangian Transport in Geophysical Jets and Waves The Dynamical Systems Approach /

• Main Authors: Samelson, Roger M. (Author), Wiggins, Stephen (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2006.
• Series: Interdisciplinary Applied Mathematics, 31
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Earth sciences.; Dynamics.; Ergodic theory.; Continuum physics.; Dynamical Systems and Ergodic Theory.; Earth Sciences, general.; Classical Continuum Physics.

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...

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.