The last one or two decades have witnessed an increased interest in to pographic Rossby waves, both from a theoretical computational as well as an observational point of view. However, even though long periodic pro cesses were observed in lakes and ocean basins with considerable detail, it appears that interpretation in terms of physical models is not suffi ciently conclusive. The reasons for this lack in understanding may be sought both, in the insufficient spatial resolution or the brevity of the time series of the available data and the inadequacy of the theoretical understanding of long...

The overwhelming focus of this 2nd volume of "Physics of Lakes" is adequately expressed by its subtitle "Lakes as Oscillators." It deals with barotropic and baroclinic waves in homogeneous and stratified lakes on the rotating Earth and comprises 12 chapters, starting with rotating shallow-water waves, demonstrating their classification into gravity and Rossby waves for homogeneous and stratified water bodies. This leads to gravity waves in bounded domains of constant depth, Kelvin, Poincare and Sverdrup waves, reflection of such waves in gulfs and rectangles and their description in sealed...

Die in diesem Buch vorgestellten vier Aufs tze von ausgewiesenen Fachleuten der Geschichte der Mechanik stellen I. Newtons "Principia," wohl das einflu reichste Physikbuch der Neuzeit, in den historischen Zusammenhang. E.A. Fellmann studiert die Wirkung des Buches auf die Zeitgenossen, vor allem auf Leibniz, C.A. Truesdell die auf seine Nachfolger, insbesondere L. Euler und die Begr nder der Kontinuumsmechanik, und schlie lich zeigt D. Speiser umgekehrt auf, wie Vorl ufer, insbesondere Huygens, Newtons Werk mitbestimmt haben. G. B hme stellt Newtons Werk, besonders auch "de Gravitatione" in...

Es ist uns allen sicherlich hinliinglich bekannt, wenn vielleicht auch nicht in der notwendigen Schiirfe bewuBt, daB der Mensch und seine Umwelt in einer Wechselbeziehung zueinander stehen. Wiihrend Jahrtausenden - bis in die Anfiinge dieses Jahrhunderts hinein - bestand diese Beziehung weitgehend in einer Abhiingigkeit des Menschen von seiner Umwelt; er hatte gelernt, im Ein klang mit der Natur zu leben. Seit jiingster Zeit wird jedoch mit immens anwachsender Intensitiit die Umwelt - und damit sei hier der gesamte Erdball gemeint - mehr und mehr yom Menschen abhiingig. Dies hiingt eng...

The book reviews recent research activities in applied mechanics and applied mathematics such as the fields of solid & fluid constitutive modeling for coupled fields, applications of geophysical & environmental context in judicious numerical-computational implementations. The book aims to merge foundation aspects of continuum mechanics with modern technological applications, notably on reviewing recent advances in the treated subjects in an attractive presentation accessible to a wide readership of engineering and applied sciences.

This book was first published in 2005. When an oceanic tidal wave that is primarily active on the water surface passes an ocean shelf or a region with a seamount, it is split into a less energetic surface wave and other internal modes with different wavelengths and propagation speeds. This cascading process, from the barotropic tides to the baroclinic components, leads to the transformation of tidal energy into turbulence and heat, an important process for the dynamics of the lower ocean. Baroclinic Tides demonstrates the analytical and numerical methods used to study the generation and...

This book describes methods of investigation for processes taking place in real lakes, as components of the geophysical environment. Covers numerical modeling, observation and experimental procedures, and the dynamics of lake water as a particle-laden fluid.

Internal wave dynamics in lakes (and oceans) is an important physical component of geophysical fluid mechanics of 'quiescent' water bodies of the Globe. The formation of internal waves requires seasonal stratification of the water bodies and generation by (primarily) wind forces. Because they propagate in basins of variable depth, a generated wave field often experiences transformation from large basin-wide scales to smaller scales. As long as this fission is hydrodynamically stable, nothing dramatic will happen. However, if vertical density gradients and shearing of the horizontal currents...

The three volumes on the Physics of Lakes provide an encyclopedic overview of fundamental physical limnology. The first volume includes simple to complex model descriptions of how to develop understanding of the physical dynamics of lakes using only basic calculus. It presents classical physical laws of mass balance, momentum, angular momentum and energy at a beginner's level. The second volume deals with barotropic and baroclinic waves in homogeneous and stratified lakes on the rotating Earth. It presents a classification of rotating shallow-water waves and describes Kelvin-type and...