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List of contributors | |
Foreword | |
Preface | |
Joel H. Ferviger - Obituary | |
On the Physics of Turbulence | |
Prologue | |
Turbulence: its origins and structure | |
A novel two-equation turbulence closure for high Reynolds numbers: homogenous stratified shear layers | |
A novel two-equation turbulence closure for high Reynolds numbers: spatially non-uniform turbulence | |
on some analogies between high-Reynolds-number turbulence and a vortex gas for a simple flow configuration | |
A spectral-closure model for turbulent flows with stable stratification | |
Intermittency | |
Horizontal mixing processes | |
Epilogue | |
Observational Methods | |
Prologue | |
Horizontal and vertical turbulence profilers | |
Microstructure sensors | |
Optical sensors | |
Dissipation measurement: theory | |
Acoustic Doppler techniques | |
Validation of microstructure-based diffusivity estimates using tracers in lakes and oceans | |
Other methods and approaches | |
Epilogue | |
Numerical and Computational Methods | |
Prologue | |
Direct and large-eddy simulation of turbulence | |
Marine-turbulence modeling using data assimilation | |
A generic transport equation for the length scale in turbulent flows | |
Some numerical aspects of turbulence-closure models | |
How to do random walk right in eddy-viscosity models | |
The GOTM modeling system | |
Coupling of the GOTM turbulence module to some three-dimensional ocean models | |
Epilogue | |
Boundary Layers | |
Prologue | |
The surface mixed layer: an overview | |
The near-surface boundary layer | |
Modeling turbulence generation by breaking waves | |
Langmuir circulation | |
Near-bottom boundary layers | |
Equatorial turbulence | |
The effect of rotation on convective boundary-layer turbulence | |
Epilogue | |
Estuaries, Fjords, and Lakes: | |
Prologue | |
Turbulence in a swift tidal channel with weak stratification | |
Partially mixed estuaries: the Hudson River | |
Turbulence measurements in highly stratified estuaries | |
Turbulence measurements in fjords | |
Turbulence and mixing regimes specific to lakes | |
Epilogue | |
Shelf Seas and the Shelf Edge: | |
Prologue | |
The near-shore region | |
The four shelf-sea regimes | |
The doubly stratified regime: turbulence closures for an OGCM of the Baltic Sea | |
The shelf edge: internal waves | |
Epilogue | |
Large-Scale Processes | |
Prologue | |
Routes to dissipation in the ocean: the two-dimensional/three-dimensional turbulence conundrum | |
From mixing to geostrophy: geostrophic turbulence in atmospheres, oceans, and the laboratory | |
Geostrophic eddies: an overview of their effects and parameterizations in ocean models | |
Vortex dynamics and turbulent lateral heat transport | |
Subgrid- and supergird-scale parameterization of turbulence in quasi-two-dimensional barotropic flows and phenomenon of negative viscosity | |
Energy spectra and zonal flows on the ß-plane, on a rotating sphere, and on giant planets | |
Vortex dynamics and ß-plane turbulence | |
On the role of eddy mixing in the transport of zonal ocean currents | |
Passive scalars in two-dimensional and quasi-geostrophic turbulence | |
Epilogue | |
The CD-ROM: Data Sets and Numerical Codes: | |
Prologue | |
Model codes | |
Data sets | |
Epilogue | |
References | |
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