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Foreword Steve Thorpe | |
Preface | |
1. The nature of gravity currents | |
2. Atmospheric gravity currents | |
3. Sea-breeze fronts | |
4. Gravity currents in satellite imagery | |
5. Fronts and topography | |
6. Environmental problems: atmosphere | |
7. Gravity currents in rivers, lakes and the ocean | |
8. Industrial problems with gravity currents: oceanography | |
9. Avalanches | |
10. Volcanic gravity currents | |
11. The anatomy of a gravity current | |
12. Spread of dense fluid | |
13. Ambient stratification | |
14. Ambient turbulence | |
15. Viscous gravity currents | |
16. Suspension flows | |
17. Gravity currents on a rotating earth | |
18. Numerical models of gravity currents | |
Index. |
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