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  title info:
    title: Nonlinear Physical Oceanography
    sub title: A Dynamical Systems Approach to the Large Scale Ocean Circulation and El Niño
  name:
    name part: Dijkstra, Henk A.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2005
    edition: 2nd Revised and Enlarged Edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XVI, 532 p. online resource.
  abstract: 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 thermohaline circulation, and the El Niño/Southern Oscillation phenomenon in the Tropical Pacific. The book also deals with the numerical methods to apply bifurcation analysis on large-dimensional dynamical systems, with tens of thousands (or more) degrees of freedom, which arise through discretization of ocean and climate models. The novel approach to understand the phenomena of climate variability is through a systematic analysis of the solution structure of a hierarchy of models using these techniques. In this way, a connection between the results of the different models within the hierarchy can be established. Mechanistic description of the physics of the results is provided and, where possible, links with results of state-of-the-art ocean (and climate) models and observations are sought. The reader is expected to have a background in basic fluid dynamics and applied mathematics, although the level of the text sometimes is quite introductory. Each of the chapters is rather self-contained and many details of derivations are provided. Exercises presented at the end of each chapter make it a perfect graduate-level text. This book is aimed at graduate students and researchers in meteorology, oceanography and related fields who are interested in tackling fundamental problems in dynamical oceanography and climate dynamics.
  table of contents: Background Material -- A Dynamical Systems Point of View -- Numerical Techniques -- The Wind-Driven Circulation -- The Thermohaline Circulation -- The Dynamics and Physics of ENSO.
  note: by Henk A. Dijkstra.
  subject:
    topic: Earth sciences
  subject:
    topic: Climatology
  subject:
    topic: Oceanography
  subject:
    topic: Atmospheric sciences
  subject:
    topic: Numerical analysis
  subject:
    topic: Dynamics
  subject:
    topic: Ergodic theory
  subject:
    topic: Statistical physics
  subject:
    topic: Dynamical systems
  subject:
    topic: Earth Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Oceanography
  subject:
    topic: Climatology
  subject:
    topic: Statistical Physics, Dynamical Systems and Complexity
  subject:
    topic: Numeric Computing
  subject:
    topic: Atmospheric Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Dynamical Systems and Ergodic Theory
  classification: GC1-1581
  classification: 551.46
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Atmospheric and Oceanographic Sciences Library, 28
  identifier: 9781402022630
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-2263-8
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    record creation date: 100301
    record change date: 20151204170822.0
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