Mesoscale/Synoptic Coherent Structures in Geophysical Turbulence (eBook)

Front Cover 1
Mesoscale/Synoptic Coherent Structures in Geophysical Turbulence 4
Copyright Page 5
TABLE OF CONTENTS 8
FOREWORD 6
CHAPTER 1. MUSHROOM–LIKE CURRENTS (VORTEX DIPOLES): ONE OF THE MOST WIDESPREAD FORMS OF NON–STATIONARY COHERENT MOTIONS IN THE OCEAN 18
CHAPTER 2. MODELLING OF "MUSHROOM–LIKE" CURRENTS (VORTEX DIPOLES) IN A LABORATORY TANK WITH ROTATING HOMOGENEOUS AND STRATIFIED FLUIDS 32
CHAPTER 3. ON THE MULTITUDE OF FORMS OF COHERENT MOTIONS IN MARGINAL ICE ZONES(MIZ) 42
CHAPTER 4. DIFFERENTIAL ROTATION (BETA–EFFECT) AS AN ORGANIZING FACTOR IN MESOSCALE DYNAMICS 58
CHAPTER 5. GEOSTROPHIC REGIMES AND GEOSTROPHIC TURBULENCE BEYOND THE RADIUS OF DEFORMATION 68
CHAPTER 6. THE EVOLUTION OF COOLING RINGS 92
CHAPTER 7. VORTICITY FRONTOGENESIS 112
CHAPTER 8. WEAKLY NON–LOCAL SOLITARY WAVES 120
CHAPTER 9. NONLINEAR INTRUSIONS 130
CHAPTER 10. THE DECAY OF MESOSCALE VORTICES 152
CHAPTER 11. EKMAN DISSIPATION OF A BAROTROPIC MODON 166
CHAPTER 12. ON THE STABILITY OF OCEAN VORTICES 184
CHAPTER 13. INFLUENCE OF TOPOGRAPHY ON MODON PROPAGATION AND SURVIVAL 198
CHAPTER 14. MESOSCALE STRUCTURES ON DENSITY DRIVEN BOUNDARY CURRENTS 214
CHAPTER 15. FACTORS INFLUENCING ASYMMETRY AND SELF ADVECTION IN OCEAN EDDIES 228
CHAPTER 16. BAROTROPIC AND BAROCLINIC INSTABILITIES OF AXISYMMETRIC VORTICES IN A QUASIGEOSTROPHIC MODEL 242
CHAPTER 17. EDDY–GENESIS AND THE RELATED HEAT TRANSPORT: A PARAMETER STUDY 262
CHAPTER 18. EDDY GENERATION BY INSTABILITY OF A HIGHLY AGEOSTROPHIC FRONT: MEAN FLOW INTERACTIONS AND POTENTIAL VORTICITY DYNAMICS 282
CHAPTER 19. EDDY–CURRENT INTERACTIONS USING A TWO-LAYER QUASI–GEOSTROPHIC MODEL 294
CHAPTER 20. SIMULATION OF OCEAN TOMOGRAPHY IN A QG MODEL 310
CHAPTER 21. SIMULATION EXPERIMENTS OF THE EVOLUTION OF MESOSCALE CIRCULATION FEATURES IN THE NORWEGIAN COASTAL CURRENT 320
CHAPTER 22. NUMERICAL MODELING OF AGHULAS RETROFLECTION AND RING FORMATION WITH ISOPYCNAL OUTCROPPING 332
CHAPTER 23. EVOLUTION OF RINGS IN NUMERICAL MODELS AND OBSERVATIONS 354
CHAPTER 24. THE ROLE OF MESOSCALE TURBULENCE IN THE AGULHAS CURRENT SYSTEM 374
CHAPTER 25. MODELLING THE VARIABILITY IN THE SOMALI CURRENT 390
CHAPTER 26. GENERAL CIRCULATION OF THE MID–LATITUDE OCEAN: COUPLED EFFECTS OF VARIABLE WIND FORCINGS AND BOTTOM TOPOGRAPHY ROUGHNESS ON THE MEAN AND EDDY CIRCULATION 404
CHAPTER 27. ASYMMETRICAL WIND FORCING DRIVING SOME NUMERICAL EDDY–RESOLVING GENERAL CIRCULATION EXPERIMENTS 424
CHAPTER 28. ON THE RESPONSE OF THE BLACK SEA EDDY FIELD TO SEASONAL FORCING 440
CHAPTER 29. THE DYNAMICAL BALANCE OF THE ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENT STUDIED WITH AN EDDY RESOLVING QUASIGEOSTROPHIC MODEL 452
CHAPTER 30. A LIMITED–AREA PRIMITIVE EQUATION MODEL OF THE GULF STREAM: RESULTS IN STATISTICAL EQUILIBRIUM 476
CHAPTER 31. A SYNOPSIS OF MESOSCALE EDDIES IN THE GULF OF MEXICO 502
CHAPTER 32. MESOSCALE EDDIES AND SUBMESOSCALE, COHERENT VORTICES: THEIR EXISTENCE NEAR AND INTERACTIONS WITH THE GULF STREAM 518
CHAPTER 33. A SUMMARY OF THE OPTOMA PROGRAM'S MESOSCALE OCEAN PREDICTION STUDIES IN THE CALIFORNIA CURRENT SYSTEM 536
CHAPTER 34. GEOMETRY–FORCED COHERENT STRUCTURES AS A MODEL OF THE KUROSHIO LARGE MEANDER 566
CHAPTER 35. THE BEHAVIOR OF KUROSHIO WARM CORE RINGS NEAR THE EASTERN COAST OF JAPAN 578
CHAPTER 36. ADVECTIVE SURFACE VELOCITIES DERIVED FROM SEQUENTIAL IMAGES OF EDDY FIELDS 594
CHAPTER 37. LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS ON DIPOLE STRUCTURES IN A STRATIFIED FLUID 608
CHAPTER 38. ON TRIPOLAR VORTICES 626
CHAPTER 39. LABORATORY STUDIES OF ISOLATED EDDIES IN A ROTATING FLUID 644
CHAPTER 40. LABORATORY STUDIES OF PSEUDO–PERIODIC FORCING DUE TO VORTEX SHEDDING FROM AN ISOLATED SOLID OBSTACLE IN A HOMOGENEOUS ROTATING FLUID 656
CHAPTER 41. TIME–DEPENDENT ROTATING STRATIFIED FLOW PAST ISOLATED TOPOGRAPHY 672
CHAPTER 42. FLAT VORTEX STRUCTURES IN A STRATIFIED FLUID 688
CHAPTER 43. LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS WITH BAROCLINIC VORTICES IN A ROTATING FLUID 708
CHAPTER 44. LONG–LIVED SOLITARY ANTICYCLONES IN THE PLANETARY ATMOSPHERES AND OCEANS, IN LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS AND IN THEORY 718
CHAPTER 45. NUMERICAL MODELLING OF THE FORMATION, EVOLUTION, INTERACTION AND DECAY OF ISOLATED VORTICES 738
CHAPTER 46. EDDY-RESOLVING MODEL OF IDEALIZED AND REAL OCEAN CIRCULATION 754
CHAPTER 47. ON THE EVOLUTION OF INTENSIVE CYCLONIC–ANTICYCLONIC VORTEX 774
CHAPTER 48. FORECAST OF INTENSE VORTEX MOTION WITH AN AZIMUTHAL MODES MODEL 788
CHAPTER 49. ON THE DYNAMICS OF LENSLIKE EDDIES 800
CHAPTER 50. SYNERGETICS OF THE OCEAN CIRCULATION 814
CHAPTER 51. A SURVEY OF OBSERVATIONS ON INTRATHERMOCLINE EDDIES IN THE WORLD OCEAN 838