Written in a clear and simple style, this textbook on fluid mechanics gives equal emphasis to both geophysical and engineering fluid mechanics. For physicists, it contains ...

Advances in Geophysics

A Tribute to the Scientific Work of Pedro Ripa

This monograph creates a systematic interpretation of the theoretical and the most actual experimental aspects of the internal wave dynamics in the ocean. Firstly, it draws ...

Till the very end of the twentieth century tsunami waves (or ‘waves in a harbour’, translated from Japanese) were considered an extremely rare and exotic natural p- nomenon ...

This monograph creates a systematic interpretation of the theoretical and the most actual experimental aspects of the internal wave dynamics in the ocean. Firstly, it draws ...

The 1995 program in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics addressed 'Rotating Convection, ' with particular emphasis on high Rayleigh number convection and on convection in the ocean.