Rotating Hydraulics Nonlinear Topographic Effects in the Ocean and Atmosphere /

• Main Authors: Pratt, Larry J. (Author), Whitehead, John A. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2007.
• Series: Atmospheric And Oceanographic Sciences Library, 36
• Subjects: Engineering.; Geophysics.; Oceanography.; Atmospheric sciences.; Fluids.; Statistical physics.; Dynamical systems.; Engineering geology.; Engineering > Geology.; Foundations.; Hydraulics.; Geoengineering, Foundations, Hydraulics.; Geophysics/Geodesy.; Atmospheric Sciences.; Statistical Physics, Dynamical Systems and Complexity.; Fluid- and Aerodynamics.

Larry Pratt received his Ph. D. in physical oceanography in the Woods Hole/MIT Joint Program in 1982.  He then served as a research associate and assistant research professor at the University of Rhode Island before joining the scientific staff at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, where he i...

Table of Contents:

• Review of the Hydraulics of Nonrotating, Homogeneous Flow
• The Hydraulics of Homogeneous Flow in a Rotating Channel
• Time-Dependence and Shocks
• Coastal Applications
• Two-Layer Flows in Rotating Channels
• Potential Vorticity Hydraulics.