Dynamics of Internal Gravity Waves in the Ocean

Dynamics of Internal Gravity Waves in the Ocean
Author: Yu.Z. Miropol'sky
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 413
Release: 2013-03-09
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9401713251

This monograph creates a systematic interpretation of the theoretical and the most actual experimental aspects of the internal wave dynamics in the ocean. Firstly, it draws attention to the important physical effects from an oceanographical point of view which are presented in mathematical descriptions. Secondly, the book serves as an introduction to the range of modern ideas and the methods in the study of wave processes in dispersive media. The book is meant for specialists in physics of the ocean, oceanography, geophysics, hydroacoustics.

Dynamics of Internal Gravity Waves in the Ocean

Dynamics of Internal Gravity Waves in the Ocean
Author: Yu.Z. Miropol'sky
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 750
Release: 2001-04-30
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9780792369356

This monograph creates a systematic interpretation of the theoretical and the most actual experimental aspects of the internal wave dynamics in the ocean. Firstly, it draws attention to the important physical effects from an oceanographical point of view which are presented in mathematical descriptions. Secondly, the book serves as an introduction to the range of modern ideas and the methods in the study of wave processes in dispersive media. The book is meant for specialists in physics of the ocean, oceanography, geophysics, hydroacoustics.

Internal Gravity Waves

Internal Gravity Waves
Author: Bruce R. Sutherland
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 395
Release: 2010-09-02
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1316184323

The study of internal gravity waves provides many challenges: they move along interfaces as well as in fully three-dimensional space, at relatively fast temporal and small spatial scales, making them difficult to observe and resolve in weather and climate models. Solving the equations describing their evolution poses various mathematical challenges associated with singular boundary value problems and large amplitude dynamics. This book provides the first comprehensive treatment of the theory for small and large amplitude internal gravity waves. Over 120 schematics, numerical simulations and laboratory images illustrate the theory and mathematical techniques, and 130 exercises enable the reader to apply their understanding of the theory. This is an invaluable single resource for academic researchers and graduate students studying the motion of waves within the atmosphere and ocean, and also mathematicians, physicists and engineers interested in the properties of propagating, growing and breaking waves.

Proceedings of Hawaiian Winter Workshop (6th) on Dynamics of Oceanic Internal Gravity Waves Held in Manoa, Hawaii on 15-18 January 1991

Proceedings of Hawaiian Winter Workshop (6th) on Dynamics of Oceanic Internal Gravity Waves Held in Manoa, Hawaii on 15-18 January 1991
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Publisher:
Total Pages: 505
Release: 1991
Genre:
ISBN:

Contents: Internal Wave Shear and Dissipation; Internal Wave Dissipation in a Non-Garrett-Munk Ocean; Testing the Critical Reflection Hypothesis; Observations of Near-Inertial Internal Waves and Mixing in the Seasonal Thermocline; On the Statistics of Fine Scale Strain in the Thermocline; Spatial Structure of Thermocline and Abyssal Internal Waves; Estimates of Small- Scale Horizontal Divergence and Relative Vorticity in the Ocean; Measurements of Ertel Vorticity Fine structure in the Eastern North Atlantic; Symmetry Preserving Mode Truncations of Inviscid Geophysical Fluid Dynamical Equations; Weak Wave and Vortex Interactions, Internal Wave-Wave Resonance Theory: Fundamentals and Limitations; Choosing Variables for internal Wave Dynamics; Is Scattering or Reflection More Effective in Causing Boundary Mixing; On the Exchange of Energy Between Surface and Internal Wave Fields; The Saturation of Middle-Atmosphere Gravity Waves; Diagnosing Diapycnal Mixing; Energy Transfers Across an Internal Wave/Vortical Mode Spectrum; Large-Eddy Simulation of Internal Wave Motions; Numerical Modeling of the Large-Scale Dynamics of Internal Waves; Parameterizing Mixing in Inverse Models; Oceanic Model Testing; and Acoustic Implications of a New Model.

Internal Gravity Waves in the Shallow Seas

Internal Gravity Waves in the Shallow Seas
Author: Stanisław R. Massel
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 175
Release: 2015-07-07
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3319189085

This book contains a comprehensive study of the internal ocean waves, which play a very important role in ocean physics providing mechanisms for ocean water mixing and circulation, as well as the transportation of gases, nutrients, and a very large number of marine organisms in the ocean body. In contrast to surface waves, the literature on internal waves is not so numerous, mainly due to the difficulties in experimental data collection and in the mathematical description of internal wave propagation. In this book, the basic mathematical principles, a physical description of the observed phenomena, and practical theoretical methods of determination of wave parameters as well as the original method of observation using moving sensors are presented. Special attention is paid to internal wave propagation over changing bottom topographies in shallow seas such as the Baltic Sea. The book is supplemented with an extended list of relevant and extended bibliographies, a subject index, and an author index.