The Equations of Oceanic Motions

ISBN: 9781107410602 出版年：2006 页码：303 Muller Cambridge University Press

Preface 1. Introduction 2. Equilibrium thermodynamics of sea water 3. Balance equations 4. Molecular flux laws 5. The gravitational potential 6. The basic equations 7. Dynamical impact of the equation state 8. Free wave solution on a sphere 9. Asymptotic expansions 10. Reynolds decomposition 11. Boussinesq approximation 12. Large scale motions 13. Primitive equations 14. Representations of vertical structure 15. Ekman layers 16. Planetary geostrophic flows 17. Tidal equations 18. Medium scale motions 19. Quasi-geostrophic flows 20. Motions on the f-plane 21. Small scale motions 22. Sound waves Appendix A. Equilibrium thermodynamics Appendix B. Vector and tensor analysis Appendix C. Orthogonal curvilinear coordinate systems Appendix D. Kinematics of fluid motions Appendix E. Kinematics of waves Appendix F. Conventional and notation References Index.