Zonal Jets: Phenomenology, Genesis, and Physics

doi:10.1017/9781107358225

In recent decades, great progress has been made in our understanding of zonal jets across many subjects - atmospheric science, oceanography, planetary science, geophysical fluid dynamics, plasma physics, magnetohydrodynamics, turbulence theory - but communication between researchers from different fields has been weak or non-existent. Even the terminology in different fields may be so disparate that researchers working on similar problems do not understand each other. This comprehensive, multidisciplinary volume will break cross-disciplinary barriers and aid the advancement of the subject. It presents a state-of-the-art summary of all relevant branches of the physics of zonal jets, from the leading experts. The phenomena and concepts are introduced at a level accessible to beginning graduate students and researchers from different fields. The book also includes a very extensive bibliography.

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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Contributors
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Foreword
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Acknowledgements
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Abbreviations
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Dedications: Raymond Hide and Gareth P. Williams
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I - Introduction
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1 - The World of Jets
pp 3-6
- By Boris Galperin, Peter L Read
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II - Zonal Jets in Nature
pp 7-8
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2 - Terrestrial Atmospheres
pp 9-45
- By Jonathan L. Mitchell, Thomas Birner, Guillaume Lapeyre, Noboru Nakamura, Peter L Read, Gwendal Riviére, Agustín Sánchez-Lavega, Geoffrey K. Vallis
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3 - Oceans
pp 46-71
- By Peter C. Cornillon, Eric Firing, Andrew F. Thompson, Leonid M. Ivanov, Igor Kamenkovich, Christian E. Buckingham, Yakov D. Afanasyev
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4 - Gas Giants
pp 72-103
- By Agustín Sánchez-Lavega, Lawrence A . Sromovsky, Adam P. Showman, Anthony D. Del Genio, Roland M. B. Young, Ricardo Hueso, Enrique García-Melendo, Yohai Kaspi, Glenn S.Orton Orton, Naiara Barrado-Izagirre, David S. Choi, John M. Barbara
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5 - Exoplanets and the Sun
pp 104-116
- By James Y-K. Cho, Heidar TH. Thrastarson, Tommi T. Koskinen, Peter L. Read, Steven M. Tobias, Woosok Moon, Jack W. Skinner
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III - Jets in Laboratories
pp 117-118
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6 - Zonal Jet Flows in the Laboratory: An Introduction
pp 119-134
- By Peter L. Read
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7 - Convectively Driven Turbulence, Rossby Waves and Zonal Jets: Experiments on the Coriolis Platform
pp 135-151
- By Peter L. Read, Joel Sommeria, Roland M.B. Young
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8 - Turbulence, Rossby Waves and Zonal Jets on the Polar β-Plane: Experiments with Laboratory Altimetry
pp 152-166
- By Yakov D. Afanasyev
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9 - Zonal Jets in the Laboratory: Experiments with Electromagnetically Forced Flows
pp 167-178
- By Stefania Espa, Gabriella Di Nitto, Boris Galperin, Jesse Hoemann
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IV - Zonal Flows in Magnetically Confined Plasmas
pp 179-180
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10 - Theory
pp 181-193
- By Paul W. Terry
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11 - Experiments
pp 194-206
- By Teresa Estrada
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V - Genesis and Maintenance of Zonal Jets: Turbulence and Instabilities
pp 207-208
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12 - General Results on Zonation in Rotating Systems with a β-Effect and the Electromagnetic Force
pp 209-219
- By Bin Cheng, Alex Mahalov
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13 - Barotropic and Zonostrophic Turbulence
pp 220-237
- By Boris Galperin, Semion Sukoriansky, Roland M. B. Young, Rei Chemke, Yohai Kaspi, Peter L. Read, Nadejda Dikovskaya
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14 - Zonal Jet Formation by Potential Vorticity Mixing at Large and Small Scales
pp 238-246
- By Richard K. Scott, David G. Dritschel
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15 - Radiating Instability
pp 247-254
- By Jinbo Wang, Michael A. Spall, Joseph Pedlosky, Igor Kamenkovich
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16 - Modulational Instability in Basic Plasma and Geophysical Models
pp 255-265
- By Brenda E. Quinn, Sergey V. Nazarenko, Colm P. Connaughton, Steven Gallagher, Bogdan Hnat
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17 - β-Plume Mechanism of Zonal Jet Creation by a Spatially Localized Forcing
pp 266-283
- By Yakov D. Afanasyev, Leonid M. Ivanov
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18 - Meridional Propagation of Zonal Jets in Ocean Gyres
pp 284-291
- By Baladubramanya T. Nadiga, David N. Straub
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