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Nonlinear processes in geophysical fluid dynamics : a tribute to the scientific work of Pedro Ripa
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Nonlinear processes in geophysical fluid dynamics : a tribute to the scientific work of Pedro Ripa

Author: Pedro Ripa; O U Velasco Fuentes; J Sheinbaum; J Ochoa
Publisher: Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, ©2003.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Pedro Ripa; O U Velasco Fuentes; J Sheinbaum; J Ochoa
ISBN: 1402015895 9781402015892
OCLC Number: 52858242
Description: xi, 376 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Contents: Ripa's theorem and its relatives / Theodore G. Shepherd --
Deep ocean influence on upper ocean baroclinic instability saturation / M.J. Olascoaga, F.J. Beron-Vera and J. Sheinbaum --
Constrained-Hamiltonian shallow-water dynamics on the sphere / F.J. Beron-Vera --
Hamiltonian description of fluid and plasma systems with continuous spectra / P.J. Morrison --
Stable vortices as maximum or minimum energy flows / Jonas Nycander --
Nonlinear outflows on a [beta] plane / Doron Nof --
Generation of internal gravity waves by unstable overflows / Gordon E. Swaters --
On the effect of heat and fresh-water fluxes across the ocean surface, in volume-conserving and mass-conserving models / Pedro Ripa --
Baroclinic waves in climates of the Earth's past / A.B.G. Bush --
Mean and eddy dynamics of the main thermocline / Geoffrey K. Vallis --
An overview of the physical oceanography of the Gulf of California / M.F. Lavín and S.G. Marinone --
The atmosphere over the Gulf of California / A. Badan --
Residual flow and mixing in the large-islands region of the central Gulf of California / S.G. Marinone and M.F. Lavín --
A description of geostrophic gyres in the southern Gulf of California / J.M. Figueroa, S.G. Marinone and M.F. Lavín --
Nonlinear internal waves near Mexico's central Pacific coast / A.E. Filonov and K.V. Konyaev --
CANEK : measuring transport in the Yucatan Channel / J. Ochoa ... [et al.] --
Diagnostic force balance and its limits / James C. McWilliams --
A note on the effects of solid boundaries on confined decaying 2D turbulence / G.J.F. van Heijst, H.J.H. Clercx and S.R. Maassen --
Effects of rotation on convective instability / G.F. Carnevale ... [et al.] --
Advection by interacting vortices on a [beta] plane / O.U. Velasco Fuentes --
A low-dimensional dynamical system for tripole formation / R.C. Kloosterziel and G.F. Carnevale.
Responsibility: edited by O.U. Velasco Fuentes, J. Sheinbaum, and J. Ochoa.
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