Fundamentals of ocean climate models /
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| Author / Creator: | Griffies, Stephen M., 1962- |
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| Imprint: | Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2004. |
| Description: | xxxiv, 518 p. : ill. ; 27 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5360785 |
Table of Contents:
- Foreword XIII
- Preface XV
- Acknowledgments XXV
- About the cover XXVII
- List of symbols XXIX
- Chapter 1. Ocean Climate Models
- 1 1.1. Ocean models as tools for ocean science
- 1 1.2. Ocean climate models
- 2 1.3. Challenges of climate change
- Part 1. Fundamental Ocean Equations
- Chapter 2. Basics Of Ocean Fluid Mechanics
- 7 2.1. Some fundamental ocean processes
- 7 2.2. The continuum hypothesis
- 9 2.3. Kinematics of fluid motion
- 0 2.4. Kinematical and dynamical approximations
- 6 2.5. Averaging over scales and realizations
- 0 2.6. Numerical discretization
- 1 2.7. Chapter summary
- Chapter 3. Kinematics
- 4 3.1. Introduction
- 4 3.2. Mathematical preliminaries
- 4 3.3. The divergence theorem and budget analyses
- 9 3.4. Volume and mass conserving kinematics
- 1 3.5. Chapter summary
- Chapter 4. Dynamics
- 2 4.1. Introduction
- 2 4.2. Motion on a rotating sphere
- 3 4.3. Principles of continuum dynamics
- 7 4.4. Dynamics of fluid parcels
- 1 4.5. Hydrostatic pressure
- 6 4.6. Dynamics of hydrostatic fluid columns
- 8 4.7. Fluid motion in a rapidly rotating system
- 2 4.8. Vertical stratification
- 8 4.9. Vorticity and potential vorticity
- 0 4.1. 0 Particle dynamics on a rotating sphere
- 5 4.1. 1 Symmetry and conservation laws
- 0 4.1. 2 Chapter summary
- Chapter 5. Thermo-Hydrodynamics
- 7 5.1. General types of ocean tracers
- 7 5.2. Basic equilibrium thermodynamics
- 1 5.3. Energy of a fluid parcel
- 5 5.4. Global mechanical energy balance
- 5 5.5. Basic non-equilibrium thermodynamics
- 0 5.6. Thermodynamical tracers
- 1 5.7. Ocean density
- 4 5.8. Chapter summary
- Chapter 6. Generalized Vertical Coordinates
- 1 6.1. Introduction
- 1 6.2. Concerning the choice of vertical coordinate
- 2 6.3. Generalized surfaces
- 8 6.4. Local orthonormal coordinates
- 0 6.5. Mathematics of generalized vertical coordinates
- 1 6.6. Metric tensors
- 6 6.7. The dia-surface velocity component
- 8 6.8. Conservation of mass and volume for parcels
- 1 6.9. Kinematic boundary conditions
- 3 6.1. 0 Primitive equations
- 5 6.1. 1 Transformation of SGS tracer flux components
- 7 6.1. 2 Chapter summary
- Part 2. averaged Descriptions
- Chapter 7. Concerni Ng Unresolved Physics
- 5 7.1. Represented dynamics and parameterized physics
- 5 7.2. Lateral (neutral) and vertical processes
- 7 7.3. Basic mechanisms for dianeutral transport
- 9 7.4. Dianeutral transport in models
- 1 7.5. Numerically induced spurious dianeutral transport
- 6 7.6. Chapter summary
- Chapter 8. Eulerian Averaged Equations
- 9 8.1. Introduction
- 9 8.2. The nonhydrostatic shallow ocean equations
- 1 8.3. Averaged kinematics
- 3 8.4. Averaged kinematics over finite domains
- 4 8.5. Averaged tracer
- 9 8.6. Averaged momentum budget
- 2 8.7. Summary of the Eulerian averaged equations
- 3 8.8. Mapping to ocean model variables
- 5 8.9. Chapter summary
- Chapter 9. Kinematics Of An Isentropic Ensemble
- 9 9.1. Parameterizing mesoscale eddies
- 9 9.2. Advection and skewsion
- 1 9.3. Volume conservation
- 4 9.4. Ensemble mean tracer equation
- 3 9.5. Quasi-Stokes transport in z-models
- 6 9.6. Chapter summary
- Part 3. Semi-Discrete Equations And Algorithms
- Chapter 10. Discretization Basics
- 10.1. Discretization methods
- 10.2. An introduction to Arakawa grids
- 10.3. Time stepping
- 10.4. Chapter summary
- Chapter 11. Mass And Tracer Budgets
- 11.1. Summary of the continuous model equations
- 11.2. Tracer and mass/volume compatibility
- 11.3. Mass budget for a grid cell
- 11.4. Mass budget for a discrete fluid column
- 11.5. Tracer budget for a grid cell
- 11.6. Fluxes for turbulence mixed layer schemes
- 11.7. Flux plus restore boundary conditions
- 11.8. Z-like vertical coordinate models
- 11.9. Chapter summary
- Chapter 12. Algorithms for hydrostatic ocean model
