Gravity Currents
In the Environment and the Laboratory

A 1997 paperback of well-received study of gravity currents for many disciplines, including meteorology, oceanography, earth science.

John E. Simpson (Author)

9780521664011, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 21 October 1999

262 pages, 230 b/w illus.
24.4 x 17 x 1.4 cm, 0.42 kg

' … Simpson communicates his enthusiasm for, and knowledge of, this subject in a very easy and readable manner.' Weather

This 1997 book comprehensively describes all aspects of gravity flow, a physical process in the environment that is covered by many different disciplines, including meteorology, oceanography, the earth sciences and many industrial processes. No other book covers a similar range of information. This second edition includes much new material, and, like the first edition, the hardback has been very well received. Gravity currents are described with a variety of laboratory experiments, many from the author's own work. Now in paperback, Gravity Currents is a valuable supplementary textbook for undergraduates and a reference work for research workers. The general reader will also find much of interest, since the physics of the flows involved is clearly described, without advanced mathematics, by numerous photographs and illustrations.

Foreword Steve Thorpe
Preface
1. The nature of gravity currents
2. Atmospheric gravity currents
3. Sea-breeze fronts
4. Gravity currents in satellite imagery
5. Fronts and topography
6. Environmental problems: atmosphere
7. Gravity currents in rivers, lakes and the ocean
8. Industrial problems with gravity currents: oceanography
9. Avalanches
10. Volcanic gravity currents
11. The anatomy of a gravity current
12. Spread of dense fluid
13. Ambient stratification
14. Ambient turbulence
15. Viscous gravity currents
16. Suspension flows
17. Gravity currents on a rotating earth
18. Numerical models of gravity currents
Index.

Subject Areas: Earth sciences [RB]