Transport and Mixing in Geophysical Flows Creators of Modern Physics /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Weiss, Jeffrey B. (Editor), Provenzale, Antonello (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2008.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Physics ; 744
• Subjects: Earth sciences.; Geophysics.; Atmospheric sciences.; Fluids.; Environmental sciences.; Earth Sciences.; Geophysics/Geodesy.; Fluid- and Aerodynamics.; Atmospheric Sciences.; Environmental Physics.

This volume collects a number of theoretical and experimental lectures on various aspects of transport and mixing of active and passive particles in geophysical flows. Transports in fluids can be approached from two complementary perspectives: in the Eulerian view of mixing, the focus is on the conc...

Table of Contents:

• Theory
• Scalar Decay in Chaotic Mixing
• Transport of Inert and Reactive Particles: Lagrangian Statistics in Turbulent Flow
• Diffusion and Reaction–Diffusion in Steady Flows at Large Péclet Numbers
• An Introduction to Radiative Transfer for Geophysicists
• Coherent Vortices and Tracer Transport
• Experiments and Observations
• Dispersion and Mixing in Quasi-two-dimensional Rotating Flows
• Quantifying Inhomogeneous, Instantaneous, Irreversible Transport Using Passive Tracer Field as a Coordinate
• Lagrangian Statistics from Oceanic and Atmospheric Observations
• The Modulation of Biological Production by Oceanic Mesoscale Turbulence.