Notes on the 1972 Summer Study Program in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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https://hdl.handle.net/1912/2994DOI
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GeophysicsAbstract
The effect of gravity on fluids of varying density is of fundamental
importance in natural flows. This subject formed the topic of
concentration for the fourteenth summer program in Geophysical Fluid
Dynamics at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. We had the good
fortune to hear Stewart Turner lecture on stratified flows just after
he had completed the manuscript for his book on the subject. Turner
chose to emphasize nonlinear and turbulent aspects of stratified flows
and, therefore, had to give up the deductive approach in favor of
treatments based on dimensional analysis and similarity arguments.
This summary of the many experimental studies of these flows increased
our awareness of the fascinating variety of phenomena in which stratification
plays so vital a role.
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Technical Report: Veronis, George, Thayer, Mary C., "Notes on the 1972 Summer Study Program in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution", 1972, DOI:10.1575/1912/2994, https://hdl.handle.net/1912/2994Related items
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