IUTAM Symposium on Turbulence in the Atmosphere and Oceans Proceedin
This book stems from the IUTAM symposium “Rotating Stratified Turbulence and Turbulence in the Atmosphere and Oceans” which took place at the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences in Cambridge from 8 to 12 December 2008, and came at the end of
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IUTAM BOOKSERIES Volume 28 Series Editors G.M.L. Gladwell, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada R. Moreau, INPG, Grenoble, France
Editorial Board J. Engelbrecht, Institute of Cybernetics, Tallinn, Estonia L.B. Freund, Brown University, Providence, USA A. Kluwick, Technische Universitt, Vienna, Austria H.K. Moffatt, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK N. Olhoff, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark K. Tsutomu, IIDS, Tokyo, Japan D. van Campen, Technical University Eindhoven, Eindhoven, The Netherlands Z. Zheng, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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IUTAM Symposium on Turbulence in the Atmosphere and Oceans Proceedings of the IUTAM Symposium on Turbulence in the Atmosphere and Oceans, Cambridge, UK, December 8–12, 2008
Editor David Dritschel University of St Andrews Mathematical Institute St Andrews, Fife KY16 9SS UK [email protected]
e-ISSN 1875-3493 ISSN 1875-3507 ISBN 978-94-007-0359-9 e-ISBN 978-94-007-0360-5 DOI 10.1007/978-94-007-0360-5 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg London New York © Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2010 No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Cover design: VTEX, Vilnius Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Preface
The text of the Persian poet R¯um¯ı, written some eight centuries ago, and reproduced at the beginning of this book is still relevant to many of our pursuits of knowledge, not least of turbulence. The text illustrates the inability people have in seeing the whole thing, the ‘big picture’. Everybody looks into the problem from his/her viewpoint, and that leads to disagreement and controversy. If we could see the whole thing, our understanding would become complete and there would be no controversy. The turbulent motion of the atmosphere and oceans, at the heart of the observed general circulation, is undoubtedly very complex and difficult to understand in its entirety. Even ‘bare’ turbulence, without rotation and stratification whose effects are paramount in the atmosphere and oceans, still poses great fundamental challenges for understanding after a century of research. Rotating stratified turbulence is a relatively new research topic. It is also far richer, exhibiting a host of distinct wave types interacting in a complicated and often subtle way with long-lived coherent structures such as jets or currents and vortices. All of this is tied together by basic fluid-dynamical nonlinearity, an
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