Ocean Dynamics - Olbers, Dirk.; Willebrand, Jürgen.; Eden, Carsten; SpringerLink (Online service) (Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2012)
Part I Fundamental Laws -- Preliminaries -- Conservation Laws for Moving Fluids -- Part II Common Approximations -- Approximations Derived from Mode Filtering -- Approximations Relating to Density Changes and Geometric Conditions -- Geostrophic and Quasi-Geostrophic Motions -- Part III Ocean Waves -- Sound Waves -- Gravity Waves -- Long Waves -- Lagrangian Theory of Ocean Waves -- Forced Waves -- Part IV Oceanic Turbulence and Eddies -- Small-Scale Turbulence -- Geostrophic Turbulence -- Part V Aspects of Ocean Circulation Theory -- Forcing of the Ocean -- The Wind-Driven Circulation -- The Meridional Overturning of the Oceans -- The Circulation of the Southern Ocean -- Part VI Appendix -- Mathematical Basics -- Models of the Ocean Circulation List of Symbols -- Index.
Keywords: Oceanography; Geophysics; Environmental sciences; Oceanography; Geophysics and Environmental Physics; Environmental Physics