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Vortex dynamics, statistical mechanics, and planetary atmospheres

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Author(s): Chjan C Lim; Xueru Ding; Joseph Nebus
Publisher: World Scientific
Year: 2009

Language: English
Pages: xii, 211 p. : ill.
City: Hackensack, NJ
Tags: Науки о Земле;Метеорология и климатология;


Content: Planets and inspiration --
Venus --
Titan --
The Great Red Spot --
Polar vortices and other curiosities --
Barotropic and shallow-water models --
Dynamic equilibria of the barotropic model : variational approach --
Statistical mechanics --
The Monte Carlo approach --
Phase transitions in energy-relative enstrophy models --
Extremal free energy in the mean-field theory --
Phase transitions of barotropic flow --
Phase transitions to super-rotation : exact closed-form solutions --
The shallow-water models : high energy, cyclonic solutions --
The shallow-water model : low-energy solutions.