Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- List of symbols
- List of abbreviations
- Preamble
- 1 General background
- 2 Linear baroclinic tides over variable bottom topography
- 3 Combined effect of horizontal density gradient and bottom topography on the dynamics of linear baroclinic tides
- 4 Topographic generation of nonlinear baroclinic tides
- 5 Evolutionary stages of baroclinic tides
- 6 Generation mechanism for different background conditions
- 7 Three-dimensional effects of baroclinic tides
- References
- Index
Preface
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 August 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- List of symbols
- List of abbreviations
- Preamble
- 1 General background
- 2 Linear baroclinic tides over variable bottom topography
- 3 Combined effect of horizontal density gradient and bottom topography on the dynamics of linear baroclinic tides
- 4 Topographic generation of nonlinear baroclinic tides
- 5 Evolutionary stages of baroclinic tides
- 6 Generation mechanism for different background conditions
- 7 Three-dimensional effects of baroclinic tides
- References
- Index
Summary
The scientific literature on baroclinic tides in the ocean is as abundant as is the general mathematical theory of internal gravity waves. The majority of research papers on this topic written since the late 1970s deal mainly with the attempts to provide a theoretical description of the vast number of experimental data obtained on the dynamics of baroclinic tides. Various analytical and semianalytical models were developed for the case of infinitesimal waves when the external tidal forcing is negligible. However, observations show that strong nonlinear baroclinic tides are the more common phenomena; they demand not only theoretical but also numerical methods to describe the wave processes adequately.
The idea of the book is to present the theoretical basis of baroclinic tides at all stages of their genesis and evolution (generation, transformation, dissipation), and to give, by comparison with experiments, advice and help regarding the theoretical interpretation and prognosis of baroclinic tides. Such an exhaustive and complete theoretical review does not exist at present, nor is there a scientific book which describes this phenomenon multilaterally. So we are intending to fill this gap.
A second reason for writing a book on this topic is to gather in one place our experience, which extends over more than 20 years, in investigating internal waves in general and baroclinic tides in particular.
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- Baroclinic TidesTheoretical Modeling and Observational Evidence, pp. xi - xiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2005