Geophysical Fluid Dynamics
Last update: 21 Apr 2025 21:17First version: 23 August 2019
I.e., the motion of the oceans and the atmosphere.
- See also:
- Climate, and General Climatology
- Pattern Formation
- Turbulence, and Fluid Mechanics in General
- Recommended (presumptiously):
- Vera Melinda Galfi, Valerio Lucarini, Francesco Ragone, Jeroen Wouters, "Applications of large deviation theory in geophysical fluid dynamics and climate science", La Rivista del Nuovo Cimento 44 (2021): 291--363, arxiv:2106.13546
- To read:
- Wally Broecker, The Great Ocean Conveyor: Discovering the Trigger for Abrupt Climate Change
- Pierre-Henri Chavanis, "Statistical mechanics of geophysical turbulence: application to jovian flows and Jupiter's great red spot", Physica D 200 (2005): 257--272
- Mark Denny, How the Ocean Works: An Introduction to Oceanography
- Andrew J. Majda and Xiaoming Wang, Nonlinear Dynamics and Statistical Theories for Basic Geophysical Flows
- James C. McWilliams, Fundamentals of Geophysical Fluid Dynamics
- Edward S. Sarachik and Mark A. Cane, The El Nino-Southern Oscillation Phenomenon
- Jorge L. Sarmiento and Nicolas Gruber, Ocean Biogeochemical Dynamics
- William D. Smyth and Jeffrey R. Carpenter, Instability in Geophysical Flows
- Henry M. Stommel, A View of the Sea: A Discussion between a Chief Engineer and an Oceanographer about the Machinery of the Ocean Circulation
- S. A. Thorpe
- Geoffrey K. Vallis, Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics: Fundamentals and Large-Scale Circulation
