TY - BOOK ID - 2685838 TI - Buoyant convection in geophysical flows AU - Plate, Erich J. AU - Organisation du traité de l'Atlantique nord. Division des affaires scientifiques AU - NATO Advanced Study Institute on Buoyant Convection in Geophysical Flows (1997 : Pforzheim, Germany) PY - 1998 VL - 513 SN - 0792351762 9401061254 9401150583 9780792351764 PB - Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, DB - UniCat KW - Boundary layer (Meteorology) KW - Couche limite (Meteorologie) KW - Grenslaag (Meteorologie) KW - Fluid dynamics KW - Geophysics KW - Heat KW - Turbulence KW - Convection KW - Congresses KW - Atmospheric sciences. KW - Mechanics. KW - Oceanography. KW - Continuum physics. KW - Atmospheric Sciences. KW - Classical Mechanics. KW - Classical and Continuum Physics. KW - Classical field theory KW - Continuum physics KW - Physics KW - Continuum mechanics KW - Oceanography, Physical KW - Oceanology KW - Physical oceanography KW - Thalassography KW - Earth sciences KW - Marine sciences KW - Ocean KW - Classical mechanics KW - Newtonian mechanics KW - Dynamics KW - Quantum theory KW - Atmospheric sciences KW - Atmosphere KW - Turbulence. KW - Geophysics. KW - Fluid dynamics. KW - Convection. KW - Flow, Turbulent KW - Turbulent flow KW - Convection of heat KW - Atmosphere, Lower KW - Atmospheric boundary layer KW - Friction layer (Meteorology) KW - Ground layer (Meteorology) KW - Lower atmosphere KW - Planetary boundary layer KW - Surface boundary layer KW - Surface layer (Meteorology) KW - Fluid mechanics KW - Geological physics KW - Terrestrial physics KW - Géographie physique KW - Heat - Convection UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:2685838 AB - Studies of convection in geophysical flows constitute an advanced and rapidly developing area of research that is relevant to problems of the natural environment. During the last decade, significant progress has been achieved in the field as a result of both experimental studies and numerical modelling. This led to the principal revision of the widely held view on buoyancy-driven turbulent flows comprising an organised mean component with superimposed chaotic turbulence. An intermediate type of motion, represented by coherent structures, has been found to play a key role in geophysical boundary layers and in larger scale atmospheric and hydrospheric circulations driven by buoyant forcing. New aspects of the interaction between convective motions and rotation have recently been discovered and investigated. Extensive experimental data have also been collected on the role of convection in cloud dynamics and microphysics. New theoretical concepts and approaches have been outlined regarding scaling and parameterization of physical processes in buoyancy-driven geophysical flows. The book summarizes interdisciplinary studies of buoyancy effects in different media (atmosphere and hydrosphere) over a wide range of scales (small scale phenomena in unstably stratified and convectively mixed layers to deep convection in the atmosphere and ocean), by different research methods (field measurements, laboratory simulations, numerical modelling), and within a variety of application areas (dispersion of pollutants, weather forecasting, hazardous phenomena associated with buoyant forcing). ER -