Title:
Environmental hazards : the fluid dynamics and geophysics of extreme events
Series:
Lecture notes series / Institute for Mathematical Sciences, National University of Singapore ; v. 21
Lecture notes series (National University of Singapore. Institute for Mathematical Sciences) ; v. 21.
Publication Information:
Singapore, SI. : World Scientific, c2011.
Physical Description:
xiv, 315 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 23 cm.
ISBN:
9789814313285
9789814366991
General Note:
"The Institute for Mathematical Sciences at the National University of Singapore hosted a Spring School on Fluid Dynamics and Geophysics of Environmental Hazards from 19 April to 2 May 2009. This volume contains the content of the nine short lecture courses given at this School..."--Back cover.
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Table of Contents
| Foreword | p. vii |
| Preface | p. ix |
| 1 A Brief Introduction to Vortex Dynamics and Turbulence | p. 1 |
| 2 Geophysical and Environmental Fluid Dynamics | p. 29 |
| 3 Weather and Climate | p. 63 |
| 4 Dynamics of the Indian and Pacific Oceans | p. 99 |
| 5 The Hurricane-Climate Connection | p. 133 |
| 6 Transport and Mixing of Atmospheric Pollutants | p. 155 |
| 7 Extreme Rain Events in Mid-Latitudes | p. 193 |
| 8 Dynamics of Hydro-Meteorological and Environmental Hazards | p. 229 |
| 9 Tsunami Modeling and Forecasting Techniques | p. 269 |
| 10 Rogue Waves | p. 295 |
| Index | p. 309 |
