| 作者简介：James C. McWilliams is Louis B. Slichter Professor of Earth Sciences in the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California at Los Angeles. |
| Preface Symbols 1 Purposes and value of geophysical fluid dynamics Fundamental dynamics 2.1 Fluid dynamics 2.1.1 Representations 2.1.2 Governing equations 2.1.3 Boundary and initial conditions 2.1.4 Energy conservation 2.1.5 Divergence, vorticity, and strain rate 2.2 Oceanic approximations 2.2.1 Mass and density 2.2.2 Momentum 2.2.3 Boundary conditions 2.3 Atmospheric approximations 2.3.1 Equation of state for an ideal gas 2.3.2 A stratified resting state 2.3.3 Buoyancy oscillations and convection 2.3.4 Hydrostatic balance 2.3.5 Pressure coordinates 2.4 Earth's rotation 2.4.1 Rotating coordinates 2.4.2 Geostrophic balance 2.4.3 Inertial oscillations 3 Barotropic and vortex dynamics 3.1 Barotropic equations 3.1.1 Circulation 3.1.2 Vorticity and potential vorticity 3.1.3 Divergence and diagnostic force balance 3.1.4 Stationary, inviscid flows 3.2 Vortex movement 3.2.1 Point vortices 3.2.2 Chaos and limits of predictability 3.3 Barotropic and centrifugal instability 3.3.1 Rayleigh's criterion for vortex stability 3.3.2 Centrifugal instability 3.3.3 Barotropic instability of parallel flows 3.4 Eddy-mean interaction 3.5 Eddy viscosity and diffusion 3.6 Emergence of coherent vortices 3.7 Two-dimensional turbulence 4 Rotating shallow-water and wave dynamics 4.1 Rotating shallow-water equations 4.1.1 Integral and parcel invariants 4.2 Linear wave solutions 4.2.1 Geostrophic mode 4.2.2 Inertia-gravity waves 4.2.3 Kelvin waves 4.3 Geostrophic adjustment 4.4 Gravity wave steepening: bores and breakers 4.5 Stokes drift and material transport 4.6 Quasigeostrophy 4.7 Rossby waves 4.8 Rossby-wave emission 4.8.1 Vortex propagation on the/3-plane 4.8.2 Eastern boundary Kelvin wave 5 Baroclinic and jet dynamics 5.1 Layered hydrostatic model 5.1.1 Two-layer equations 5.1.2 N-layer equations 5.1.3 Vertical modes …… 6. Boundary-layer and wind-gyre dynamics Afterword Exercises Bibliography Index |
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