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Lagrangian transport in geophysical jets and waves : the dynamical systems approach

Title
Lagrangian transport in geophysical jets and waves : the dynamical systems approach / R.M. Samelson, S. Wiggins.
Author
Samelson, R. M. (Roger M.)
Publication
New York, N.Y. : Springer, [2006], ©2006.

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Additional Authors
Wiggins, Stephen.
Description
x, 147 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.
Series Statement
Interdisciplinary applied mathematics ; v. 31
Uniform Title
Interdisciplinary applied mathematics ; v. 31.
Subjects
Contents
1. Introduction -- 2. Steadily translating waves and meanders -- 3. Integrability of Langrangian motion -- 4. Fluctuating waves and meanders -- 5. Material manifolds, flow regimes, and fluid exchange -- 6. Lobe transport and flux -- 7. Transport and dynamics -- A. Mathematical properties of fluid trajectories -- B. Action-angle coordinates -- C. Numerical methods -- D. Finite-time material manifolds : an example.
ISBN
0387332693 (hd. bd.)
LCCN
  • 2006926442
  • 9780387332697
OCLC
  • ocm71814091
  • SCSB-5283352
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries