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Book SynopsisPreface.- Chapter 1 Introduction.- PART I: Fluid Dynamics in Inertial Reference Frames.- Chapter 2 Forces in fluid dynamics.- Chapter 3 Fundamentals of fluid statics.- Chapter 4 Fundamentals of fluid kinematics.- Chapter 5 The equations of fluid dynamics.- Chapter 6 Turbulence and eddy viscosity.- Chapter 7 Flow at low Reynolds number.- Chapter 8 Flow at large Reynolds number.- Chapter 9 Fundamentals of surface gravity waves.- Chapter 10 Energy and statistics of surface gravity waves.- Chapter 11 Fundamentals ofinternal gravity waves.- PART II: Fluid Dynamics in Rotating Reference Frames.- Chapter 12 Coriolis force, geostrophic motion.- Chapter 13 Characteristics of rotating fluids.- Chapter 14 The thermal wind.- Chapter 15 Ageostrophic winds in the atmospheric boundary layers.- Chapter 16 Ageostrophic currents in the oceanic boundary layers.- Chapter 17 The shallow water approximation.- Chapter 18 Potential vorticity and applications.- Chapter 19 Quasigeostrophic approximation, Rossby waves.- Chapter 20 Oceanic and atmospheric vortices, general circulation.- Appendix 1 Gauss-Green and Stokes theorems.- Appendix 2 Representation of surface forces by means of the stress tensor.- Appendix 3 Relative motion near a point.- Appendix 4 Kelvin's circulation theorem.- Bibliography.
