Modeling Atmospheric and Oceanic Flows: Insights from Laboratory Experiments and Numerical Simulations provides a broad overview of recent progress in using laboratory experiments and numerical simulations to model atmospheric and oceanic fluid motions. This volume not only surveys novel research topics in laboratory experimentation, but also highlights recent developments in the corresponding computational simulations. As computing power grows exponentially and better numerical codes are developed, the interplay between numerical simulations and laboratory experiments is gaining paramount importance within the scientific community. The lessons learnt from the laboratorymodel comparisons in this volume will act as a source of inspiration for the next generation of experiments and simulations. Volume highlights include:
Topics pertaining to atmospheric science, climate physics, physical oceanography, marine geology and geophysics
Overview of the most advanced experimental and computational research in geophysics
Recent developments in numerical simulations of atmospheric and oceanic fluid motion
Unique comparative analysis of the experimental and numerical approaches to modeling fluid flow
Modeling Atmospheric and Oceanic Flows will be a valuable resource for graduate students, researchers, and professionals in the fields of geophysics, atmospheric sciences, oceanography, climate science, hydrology, and experimental geosciences.
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| Preface |
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| Acknowledgments |
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| Introduction: Simulations of Natural Flows in the Laboratory and on a Computer |
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Section I Baroclinic-Driven Flows |
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1 General Circulation of Planetary Atmospheres: Insights from Rotating Annulus and Related Experiments |
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2 Primary Flow Transitions in the Baroclinic Annulus: Prandtl Number Effects |
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3 Amplitude Vacillation in Baroclinic Flows |
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Section II Balanced and Unbalanced Flows |
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4 Rotation Effects on Wall-Bounded Flows: Some Laboratory Experiments |
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5 Altimetry in a GFD Laboratory and Flows on the Polar β-Plane |
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6 Instabilities of Shallow-Water Flows with Vertical Shear in the Rotating Annulus |
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7 Laboratory Experiments on Flows Over Bottom Topography |
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8 Direct Numerical Simulations of Laboratory-Scale Stratified Turbulence |
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Section III Atmospheric Flows |
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9 Numerical Simulation (DNS, LES) of Geophysical Laboratory Experiments: Quasi-Biennial Oscillation (QBO) Analogue and Simulations Toward Madden---Julian Oscillation (MJO) Analogue |
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10 Internal Waves in Laboratory Experiments |
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11 Frontal Instabilities at Density---Shear Interfaces in Rotating Two-Layer Stratified Fluids |
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12 Large-Amplitude Coastal Shelf Waves |
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13 Laboratory Experiments With Abrupt Thermohaline Transitions and Oscillations |
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14 Oceanic Island Wake Flows in the Laboratory |
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Section V Advances in Methodology |
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15 Lagrangian Methods in Experimental Fluid Mechanics |
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16 A High-Resolution Method for Direct Numerical Simulation of Instabilities and Transitions in a Baroclinic Cavity |
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17 Orthogonal Decomposition Methods to Analyze PIV, LDV, and Thermography Data of Thermally Driven Rotating Annulus Laboratory Experiments |
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Thomas Gerd Von Larcher is a researcher in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Sciences, Institute for Mathematics at Free University, Berlin, Germany. He completed his doctorate in Engineering Technology. He has authored a few research articles and book chapters. His research interests include finite element method, fluid mechanics, computational fluid dynamics, computational physics, heat transfer, oceanography, fluid flow, numerical modeling.
Paul D Williams is a Royal Society University Research Fellow at the University of Reading, in the Department of Meteorology and the National Centre for Atmospheric Science. He is at the Readership grade. He has authored over 80 research articles including a recent publication in Nature Climate Change. His research interests include studying the atmosphere and ocean, and their role in weather and climate, using mathematical and numerical models and laboratory experiments. He is also currently the Editor of Geophysical Research Letters.
