Gravity Currents
Gravity Currents
$87.99
USDThis 1997 book comprehensively describes all aspects of gravity flow, a physical process in the environment that is covered by many different disciplines, including meteorology, oceanography, the earth sciences and many industrial processes. No other book covers a similar range of information. This second edition includes much new material, and, like the first edition, the hardback has been very well received. Gravity currents are described with a variety of laboratory experiments, many from the author's own work. Now in paperback, Gravity Currents is a valuable supplementary textbook for undergraduates and a reference work for research workers. The general reader will also find much of interest, since the physics of the flows involved is clearly described, without advanced mathematics, by numerous photographs and illustrations.
- There are no similar books on this topic covering a wide range of multidisciplinary material
- Hardback received excellent reviews
- Many figures and photographs
Reviews & endorsements
"This book is well written and thoughtfully motivated and has clear explanations. Its great strength is in the physical insight it provides into many commonly occurring flows and phenomena." Physics Today
"The scope of the book is broad, and covers gravity currents in the atmospheric, oceanographic, environmental, and earth sciences...the broadest and most useful collection of material in the field. It remains not only an essential reference for anyone in any related discipline, but also absorbing and informative read for the general reader." Géographie Physique Et Quaternaire
"I will use this book as an encyclopedia or dictionary via the extensive index. In general, I would recommend it to those interested in a well written description of the surrounding physical world and the many manifestations of gravity currents." The Leading Edge
"This book with its great variety of examples from the atmosphere, rivers and oceans and its many photos and lucid illustrations is wonderful to look at and highly pleasing to read." Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics
Product details
November 1999Paperback
9780521664011
262 pages
244 × 170 × 14 mm
0.42kg
230 b/w illus.
Available
Table of Contents
- 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.
