John E. Simpson

Gravity Currents

In the Environment and the Laboratory

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

New paperback of well-received study of gravity currents for many disciplines, including meteorology, oceanography, earth science.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• 2. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 262
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Januar 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 458g
• ISBN-13: 9780521664011
• ISBN-10: 0521664012
• Artikelnr.: 22169411

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword Steve Thorpe
Preface
1. The nature of gravity currents
2. Atmospheric gravity currents
3. Sea-breeze fronts
4. Gravity currents in satellite imagery
5. Fronts and topography
6. Environmental problems: atmosphere
7. Gravity currents in rivers, lakes and the ocean
8. Industrial problems with gravity currents: oceanography
9. Avalanches
10. Volcanic gravity currents
11. The anatomy of a gravity current
12. Spread of dense fluid
13. Ambient stratification
14. Ambient turbulence
15. Viscous gravity currents
16. Suspension flows
17. Gravity currents on a rotating earth
18. Numerical models of gravity currents
Index.