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Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics: Fundamentals and Large-scale Circulation | 
 enlarge | Author: Geoffrey K. Vallis
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Category: Book
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Media: Hardcover
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Pages: 745
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Dimensions (in): 9.8 x 7.2 x 1.6
ISBN: 0521849691
Dewey Decimal Number: 532.05
EAN: 9780521849692
ASIN: 0521849691
Publication Date: November 6, 2006
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Product Description
Fluid dynamics is fundamental to our understanding of the atmosphere and oceans. Although many of the same principles of fluid dynamics apply to both the atmosphere and oceans, textbooks tend to concentrate on the atmosphere, the ocean, or the theory of geophysical fluid dynamics (GFD). This textbook provides a comprehensive unified treatment of atmospheric and oceanic fluid dynamics. The book introduces the fundamentals of geophysical fluid dynamics, including rotation and stratification, vorticity and potential vorticity, and scaling and approximations. It discusses baroclinic and barotropic instabilities, wave-mean flow interactions and turbulence, and the general circulation of the atmosphere and ocean. Student problems and exercises are included at the end of each chapter. Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics: Fundamentals and Large-Scale Circulation will be an invaluable graduate textbook on advanced courses in GFD, meteorology, atmospheric science and oceanography, and an excellent review volume for researchers. Additional resources are available at www.cambridge.org/9780521849692.
Book Description
This textbook provides a comprehensive unified treatment of atmospheric and oceanic fluid dynamics. Student problems are included at the end of each chapter. This will be an invaluable graduate textbook on advanced courses in GFD, meteorology, atmospheric science and oceanography, and will also be an excellent review volume for researchers.
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absolutely great March 10, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
this book has the potential to become the Textbook for modern topics in GFD. you will still need Gill's, Pedlosky's GFD, and Holton's to give you a complete classical training. After that, there are no lack of more modern approaches such as this book, McWilliams', and Salmon's. combined with the great price, what more can one ask!?
An introductory text and an encyclopedia of GFD November 13, 2006
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
Geoffrey Vallis has produced a book on Geophysical Fluid Dynamics (GFD) that ingeniously is both, a lucid introductory text and an encyclopedia.
Vallis does not arrogantly push you in hard at the deep end but caringly takes your hand and helps you enter the shallow end. Your confidence therefore grows quickly and you feel eager to explore and learn. This desire is fully satisfied because all the many details a truly curious mind wants to absorb are provided along the way. You are accompanied as close to the cutting edge of research as it is possible for a book. This makes it also attractive to those of you that are already comfortably in the deep end, especially because of its encyclopedic qualities. It allows you to extract conveniently the specific knowledge you need for your research.
If you are about to enter the world of GFD or you are already happily wandering in it, make sure Vallis' book is in your luggage.
An exceptional GFD textbook November 11, 2006
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
I have been very impressed with the this excellent textbook. I started reading a pre-print of it at a point in time when I had not yet studied any fluid dynamics, oceanography, or atmospheric science. Despite this, I was able to follow the author's clear exposition as he introduced the fundamentals of GFD. Throughout the book, he does a good job combining descriptive explanations of the phenomena he discusses with physical intuition and mathematical derivations of the necessary equations. But Vallis does much more than just introduce readers to atmospheric and oceanic dynamics; he also conveys the fascination of the subject and gives the reader insights into further research required to improve our understanding of it.
Readers interested in exploring the subject further will find the references a valuable addition to the text. Note that this book only covers dynamics of the atmosphere and ocean. Readers can consult other books on atmospheric science and oceanography for broader introductions to these fields; however, the book is self-contained and doing so is not necessary in order to understand it. Graduate students seeking research topics might find some in the problems marked with diamonds.
I've read a lot of textbooks in many subjects and this one is truly exceptional.
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