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Geophysical fluid dynamics is the branch of fluid dynamics that investigates the largescale flows in the atmosphere and oceans. Revised and updated, it includes expanded discussions of the fundamentals. Finitesize effects in forced twodimensional turbulence. He is a scientist emeritus at the woods hole oceanography institute. Geophysical fluid dynamics by vladimir zeitlin overdrive. Geophysical fluid dynamics applied mathematics university of. Geophysical fluid dynamics, in its broadest meaning, refers to the fluid dynamics of naturally occurring flows, such as lava flows, oceans, and planetary atmospheres, on earth and other planets two physical features that are common to many of the phenomena studied in geophysical fluid dynamics are rotation of the fluid.
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