Lagrangian Analysis and Prediction of Coastal and Ocean Dynamics

ISBN-13: 9780521870184 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 487 str.

Annalisa Griffa

Opis

Review of Lagrangian techniques for researchers and graduate students in physical systems and biological modelling.

Recenzje

'We found the book very interesting reading and strongly recommend it as an encyclopedia on trajectory-related methods, as well as an historical expose over the dynamic development of a relatively new and viable branch of contemporary oceanography - a development that Joseph Luis Lagrange himself would have been delighted to see.' Marine and Geographical Researches

Spis treści

Preface; 1. Evolution of Lagrangian methods in oceanography H. Thomas Rossby; 2. Measuring surface currents with Surface Velocity Program drifters: the instrument, its data, and some recent results R. Lumpkin and M. Pazos; 3. Favourite trajectories A. S. Bower, H. Furey, S. Grodsky, J. Carton, L. R. Centurioni, P. P. Niiler, Y. Kim, D.-K. Lee, V.A. Sheremet, N. Garfield, C. A. Collins, T. A. Rago, R. Paquette, V. Kourafalou, E. Williams, T. Lee, M. Lankhorst, W. Zenk, Arthur J. Mariano, E. H. Ryan, P.-N. Poulain, H. Valdimarsson and S.-A. Malmberg; 4. Particle motion in a sea of eddies C. Pasquero, A. Bracco, A. Provenzale and J. B. Weiss; 5. Inertial particle dynamics on the rotating Earth N. Paldor; 6. Predictability of Lagrangian motion in the upper ocean L. I. Piterbarg, T. M. Ozgokmen, Annalisa Griffa and Arthur J. Mariano; 7. Lagrangian data assimilation in ocean general circulation models A. Molcard, Tamay Ozgokmen, Annalisa Griffa, L. I. Piterbarg and T. M. Chin; 8. Dynamic consistency and Lagrangian data in oceanography: mapping, assimilation and optimization schemes T. M. Chin, K. Ide, C. K. R. T. Jones, L. Kuznetsov and Arthur J. Mariano; 9. Observing turbulence regimes and Lagrangian dispersal properties in the ocean V. Rupolo; 10. Lagrangian biophysical dynamics D. B. Olson; 11. Plankton: Lagrangian inhabitants of the sea G. L. Hitchcock and R. K. Cowen; 12. A Lagrangian stochastic model for the dynamics of a stage structured population. Application to a copepod population G. Buffoni, M. G. Mazzocchi and S. Pasquali; 13. Lagrangian analysis and prediction of coastal and ocean dynamics (LAPCOD) Arthur J. Mariano and E. H. Ryan.