Dynamics Of Internal Gravity Waves In The Ocean

Dynamics of Internal Gravity Waves in the Ocean ATMOSPHERIC AND OCEANOGRAPHIC SCIENCES LIBRARY VOLUME 24 Editor-in-Chief Robert Sadourny, Laboratoire de Meteorologie Dynamique du CNRS, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France Editorial Advisory Board L. Bengtsson A. Berger PJ. Crutzen J.R. Garratt G. Geernaert M. Hantel A. Hollingsworth H. Kelder T.N. Krishnamurti P Malanotte-Rizzoli S.G.H. Philander D.Randall J.-L. Redelsperger RD. Rosen S.H. Schneider J.C. Wyngaard Max-Planck-Institut fOr Meteorologie, Hamburg, Germany Universite Catholique, Louvain, Belgium Max-Planck-Institut fOr Chemie, Mainz, Germany CSIRO, Aspendale, Victoria, Australia DMU-FOLU, Roskilde, Denmark UniversitiH Wien, Austria European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts, Reading, UK KNMI (Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute), De Bilt, The Netherlands The Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, U.S.A. MIT, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A. Princeton University, NJ, U.S.A. Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, U.S.A. METEO-FRANCE, Centre National de Recherches Meteorologiques, Toulouse, France AER, Inc., Cambridge, MA, U.S.A. Stanford University, CA, U.S.A. Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, U.S.A. Dynamics of Internal Gravity Waves in the Ocean by Yu. Z. Miropol'sky t Formerly of P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, °Russia translated and edited by 0.0. Shishkina Institute of Applied Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia •• SPRINGER-SCIENCE+BUSINESS MEDIA, BVo Library of Congress Cata1oging-in-Publication Data Miropol'skii, ru. Z. (!Urii Zakbarovich), 1943[Dinamika vnutrennikh gravitatsionnykh voln v okeane. English] Dynamics of internal gravity waves in the ocean I by Yu. Z. MiropoIsky ; edited and translated by 0.0. Shishkina. p. em. - (Atmospheric and oceanographic sciences library; v. 24) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-90-481-5692-4 ISBN 978-94-017-1325-2 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-94-017-1325-2 1. Internal waves. 2. Gravity waves. 3. Fluid dynamics. I. Shishkina, Ol'ga Vasil'evna. ll. Title. ill. Series. GC211.2 .M5713 2001 55 I.47'02--dc2 I 2001029313 ISBN 978-90-481-5692-4 This work is an updated translation of Dinamika Vnutrennikh Gravitacionnykh voln V Okeane. Leningrad: Gidrometeoizdat, 1981 Printed on acid-free paper All Rights Reserved © 2001 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht Originally published by Kluwer Academic Publishers in 2001 No part of the material protected by this copyright notice may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system, without written permission from the copyright owner. This book is dedicated to the great worldwide efforts of the numerous army of theoretical and experimental researchers in the field of physical oceanography Contents Foreword Preface Acknowledgments Xl Xill XVll 1 Introduction Part I Principles of thermo hydrodynamic description of internal gravity waves in the ocean 1. BRIEF INFORMATION AB