Nonlinear Physical Oceanography A Dynamical Systems Approach to the Large Scale Ocean Circulation and El Niño /

• Main Author: Dijkstra, Henk A. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2005.
• Edition: 2nd Revised and Enlarged Edition.
• Series: Atmospheric and Oceanographic Sciences Library, 28
• Subjects: Earth sciences.; Climatology.; Oceanography.; Atmospheric sciences.; Numerical analysis.; Dynamics.; Ergodic theory.; Statistical physics.; Dynamical systems.; Earth Sciences.; Statistical Physics, Dynamical Systems and Complexity.; Numeric Computing.; Atmospheric Sciences.; Dynamical Systems and Ergodic Theory.

In this book, methodology of dynamical systems theory is applied to investigate the physics of the large-scale ocean circulation. Topics include the dynamics of western boundary currents such as the Gulf Stream in the Atlantic Ocean and the Kurosio in the Pacific Ocean, the stability of the thermoha...