Zonal Jets: Phenomenology, Genesis, and Physics (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781107043886)

In recent decades, great progress has been made in our understanding of zonal jets across many subjects - atmospheric science, oceanography, planetary science, geophysical fluid dynamics, plasma physics, magnetohydrodynamics, turbulence theory - but communication between researchers from different fields has been weak or non-existent. Even the terminology in different fields may be so disparate that researchers working on similar problems do not understand each other. This comprehensive, multidisciplinary volume will break cross-disciplinary barriers and aid the advancement of the subject. It presents a state-of-the-art summary of all relevant branches of the physics of zonal jets, from the leading experts. The phenomena and concepts are introduced at a level accessible to beginning graduate students and researchers from different fields. The book also includes a very extensive bibliography.

Author: Boris Galperin
ISBN-10: 1107043883
ISBN-13: 9781107043886
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 02/28/2019
Pages: 550
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 3.30lbs
Size: 11.00h x 8.50w x 1.13d