Jeremy G. Venditti - Coherent flow structures at Earths surface [derives from a conference held at Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada, 3-5 August 2011]

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Coherent flow structures at Earths surface / edited by Jeremy G. Venditti [et al.].
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-119-96277-9 (cloth)
1. Turbulence. I. Venditti, Jeremy G., 1971
TA357.5.T87C64 2013
551.3dc23

2013014152

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Cover image: patagonia_amo_2010355_lrg.jpg cover photo:

The western edge of the South Atlantic ocean gyre that brings warmer, saltier water from the subtropics where it collides with cooler fresher waters flowing up from the south. The currents meet at the eastern edge of the continental shelf, pulling nutrients up from the deep ocean and resulting in a phytoplankton bloom that highlights interfacial instabilities along the edges of the ocean currents. Captured with the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASAs Aqua satellite on December 21, 2010. (Image courtesy of NASAs Earth Observatory, http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=48244 ).
ISS030-E-162344_lrg.jpg cover photo:
Coherent flow structures generated in ice floes along the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia by the southwestward-flowing Kamchatka ocean current on March 15, 2012. The image was taken by the Expedition 30 crew from the International Space Station (Image courtesy of NASAs Earth Observatory, http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=77589 ).
Cover design by Gary Thompson

List of Contributors

Ronald J. Adrian School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, United States. rjadrian@asu.edu

Joseph F. Atkinson Department of Civil, Structural, and Environmental Engineering, University at Buffalo, New York 14260, United States. atkinson@buffalo.edu

Andreas C. W. Baas Department of Geography, King's College London, The Strand, London, VC2R 2LS, United Kingdom. andreas.baas@kcl.ac.uk

Julio M. Barros Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801 United States. jmbarros@illinois.edu

Bernard O. Bauer Earth and Environmental Sciences and Physical Geography, University of British Columbia Okanagan, Kelowna, British Columbia V1V 1V7, Canada. bernard.bauer@ubc.ca

Marius Becker MARUM-Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen, Bremen 28359, Germany. mbecker@marum.de

Sean J. Bennett Department of Geography, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14261, United States. seanb@buffalo.edu

James L. Best Departments of Geology, Geography and Geographic Information Science, Mechanical Science and Engineering and Ven Te Chow Hydrosystems Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, United States. jimbest@illinois.edu

Gianluca Blois Departments of Mechanical Science and Engineering and Geology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, 61801, United States, and International Institute for Carbon Neutral Energy Research (WPI-I2CNER), Kyushu University, 744 Moto-oka, Nishi-ku, Fukuoka 819-0395, Japan. blois@illinois.edu

Jeffrey R. Carpenter Department of Geology and Geophysics, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, United States. jeffrey.carpenter@yale.edu

Daniela Cava CNR Institute of Atmosphere Sciences and Climate, National Research Council, Lecce, Italy. d.cava@isac.cnr.it

C. Chris Chickadel Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98105, United States. chickadel@uw.edu

Kenneth T. Christensen Departments of Mechanical Science and Engineering, Aerospace Engineering and Geology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, United States, and International Institute for Carbon Neutral Energy Research (WPI-I2CNER), Kyushu University, 744 Moto-oka, Nishi-ku, Fukuoka 819-0395, Japan. ktc@illinois.edu

Michael Church Department of Geography, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z2, Canada. mchurch@geog.ubc.ca

Clinton L. Dancey Baker Environmental Hydraulics Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Virginia Polytechnic and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061, United States. cld@vt.edu

Panayiotis Diplas Imbt Environmental Hydraulics Laboratory, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 18015, United States. panos2007@gmail.com

Michael J. Fay Department of Geography, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York 14261, United States. faymichael@gmail.com

John J. Finnigan Marine and Atmospheric Research, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Canberra, Australia. john.finnigan@csiro.au

Efi Foufoula-Georgiou St. Anthony Falls Laboratory and National Center for Earth-Surface Dynamics, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN 55414, United States. efi@umn.edu

Michele Guala Saint Anthony Falls Laboratory, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55414, United States. mguala@umn.edu

Richard J. Hardy Department of Geography, Durham University, Durham, DH1 3LE, United Kingdom. r.j.hardy@durham.ac.uk

Patrick A. Hesp School of the Environment, Flinders University, South Australia, 5042, Australia. Patrick.hesp@flinders.edu.au