This volume provides an overview of the fluid aspects of the climate system, focusing on basic aspects as well as recent research developments. It will bring together contributions from diverse fields of the physical, mathematical and engineering sciences. The volume will be useful to doctorate students, postdocs and researchers working on different aspects of atmospheric, oceanic and environmental fluid dynamics. It will also be of interest to researchers interested in quantitatively understanding how fluid dynamics can be applied to the climate system, and to climate scientists willing to gain a deeper insight into the fluid mechanics underlying climate processes.
Author(s): Antonello Provenzale, Elisa Palazzi, Klaus Fraedrich
Series: CISM International Centre for Mechanical Sciences
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer
Year: 2016
Language: English
Pages: 208
Tags: Engineering Fluid Dynamics; Climatology; Geophysics and Environmental Physics
Front Matter....Pages i-vii
Understanding climate variability using dynamical systems theory....Pages 1-38
A theoretical introduction to atmospheric and oceanic convection....Pages 39-60
Laboratory experiments on large-scale geophysical flows....Pages 61-94
Individual Particle Based Description of Atmospheric Dispersion: a Dynamical Systems Approach....Pages 95-119
The parameter optimization problem in state-of-the-art climate models and network analysis for systematic data mining in model intercomparison projects.....Pages 121-141
Climate dynamics on global scale: resilience, hysteresis and attribution of change....Pages 143-159
Water in the climate system....Pages 161-182
Climate dynamics on watershed scale: along the rainfall-runoff chain....Pages 183-209
