Geophysical Convection Dynamics (Volume 5) (Developments in Weather and Climate Science, Volume 5) - Softcover

Yano, Jun-Ichi

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0323912133 ISBN 13: 9780323912136

Publisher: Royal Meteorological Society – Elsevier, 2023

Synopsis

Geophysical Convection Dynamics, Volume Five provides a single source reference that enables researchers to go through the basics of geophysical convection. The book includes basics on the dynamics of convection, including linear stability analysis, weakly nonlinear theory, effect of rotation, and double diffusion. In addition, it includes detailed descriptions of fully developed turbulence in well-mixed boundary layers, a hypothesis of vertical homogeneity, effects of moisture, and the formation of clouds. The book focuses on the presentation of the theoretical methodologies for studying convection dynamics with an emphasis on geophysical application that is relevant to fields across the earth and environmental sciences, chemistry and engineering.

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• Guides and prepares early-stage researchers to plunge directly into research
• Provides a synthesis of the existing literature on topics including linear stability analysis, weakly nonlinear theory, effect of rotation, double diffusion, description of fully developed turbulence in well-mixed boundary layers, hypothesis of vertical homogeneity, effects of moisture, formation of clouds at the top, and cloud-top entrainment instability
• Presents geophysical convection to readers as a common problem spanning the atmosphere, oceans, and the Earth's mantle

About this title

About the Author

Dr. Jun-Ichi Yano has more than 30 years of research experience with various geophysical convection problems: those include the dynamics of atmospheric convection and its parameterization, interactions of convection and the large-scale dynamics in the tropical atmosphere, convection inside the giant planets and the Earth's core, and convection of self-gravitating systems in high rotation limit. He has also been extensively working on other problems of geophysical flows: theoretical studies of the vortex dynamics, and their applications to the Jovian atmospheres, oceans, and the tropical atmosphere; chaos theory and its applications to the atmospheric dynamics; wavelet analyses; tropical meteorology, microphysics, and numerical weather a hypothesis of vertical homogeneity, prediction problems.

From the Back Cover

Geophysical Convection Dynamics enables researchers to go through all these basics of geophysical convection in one reference book. The book includes basics of the dynamics of convection: linear stability analysis, weakly nonlinear theory, effect of rotation, and double diffusion. It also includes detailed description of fully developed turbulence in well-mixed boundary layers, a hypothesis of vertical homogeneity, effects of moisture, and the formation of clouds. The book focuses on the presentation of the theoretical methodologies for studying convection dynamics with the emphasis on geophysical application and is relevant to those in fields across the earth and environmental sciences as well as chemistry and engineering.

Edition details

• Publisher: Royal Meteorological Society – Elsevier
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0323912133
• ISBN 13: 9780323912136
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 302