Zonal Jets
Phenomenology, Genesis, and Physics

Presents a comprehensive, multidisciplinary volume on the physics of zonal jets, from the leading experts, for graduate students and researchers.

Boris Galperin (Edited by), Peter L. Read (Edited by)

9781107043886, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 28 February 2019

550 pages, 120 b/w illus. 235 colour illus.
29 x 22.5 x 3.5 cm, 1.55 kg

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.

Foreword Isaac Held
Part I. Introduction: 1. The world of jets Boris Galperin and Peter L. Read
Part II. Zonal Jets in Nature: 2. Terrestrial atmospheres Jonathan L. Mitchell, Thomas Birner, Guillaume Lapeyre, Noboru Nakamura, Peter L. Read, Gwendal Riviere, Agustin Sánchez-Lavega and Geoffrey K. Vallis
3. Oceans Peter C. Cornillon, Eric Firing, Andrew F. Thompson, Leonid M. Ivanov, Igor Kamenkovich, Christian E. Buckingham and Yakov D. Afanasyev
4. Gas giants Agustin S´anchez-Lavega, Lawrence A. Sromovsky, Adam P. Showman, Anthony D. Del Genio, Roland M. B. Young, Ricardo Hueso, Enrique Garcia-Melendo, Yohai Kaspi, Glenn S. Orton, Naiara Barrado-Izagirre, David S. Choi and John M. Barbara
5. Exoplanets and the sun James Y-K. Cho, Heidar Th. Thrastarson, Tommi T. Koskinen, Peter L. Read, Steven M. Tobias, Woosok Moon, and Jack W. Skinner
Part III. Jets in Laboratories: 6. Zonal jet flows in the laboratory: an introduction Peter L. Read
7. Convectively driven turbulence, Rossby waves and zonal jets: experiments on the Coriolis platform Peter L. Read, Joel Sommeria and Roland M. B. Young
8. Turbulence, Rossby waves and zonal jets on the polar ?-plane: experiments with laboratory altimetry Yakov D. Afanasyev
9. Zonal jets in laboratory: experiments with electromagnetically forced flows Stefania Espa, Gabriella Di Nitto, Boris Galperin and Jesse Hoemann
Part IV. Zonal Flows in Magnetically Confined Plasmas: 10. Theory Paul W. Terry
11. Experiments Teresa Estrada
Part V. Genesis and Maintenance of Zonal Jets: Turbulence and Instabilities: 12. General results on zonation in rotating systems with a ?-effect and the electromagnetic force Bin Cheng and Alex Mahalov
13. Barotropic and zonostrophic turbulence Boris Galperin, Semion Sukoriansky, Roland M. B. Young, Rei Chemke, Yohai Kaspi, Peter L. Read and Nadejda Dikovskaya
14. Zonal jet formation by potential vorticity mixing at large and small scales Richard K. Scott and David G. Dritschel
15. Radiating instability Jinbo Wang, Michael A. Spall, Joseph Pedlosky and Igor Kamenkovich
16. Modulational instability in basic plasma and geophysical models Brenda E. Quinn, Sergey V. Nazarenko, Colm P. Connaughton, Steven Gallagher and Bogdan Hnat
17. ?-plume mechanism of creation of zonal jets by a spatially localized forcing Yakov D. Afanasyev and Leonid M. Ivanov
18. Meridional propagation of zonal jets in ocean gyres Balasubramanya T. Nadiga and David N. Straub
19. Dynamics of baroclinic multiple zonal jets Pavel Berloff and Igor Kamenkovich
Part VI. Genesis and Maintenance of Zonal Jets: Statistical Theories: 20. Statistical closures and zonal flows John A. Krommes and Jeffrey B. Parker
21. Direct statistical simulation of a jet J. Brad Marston, Wanming Qi and Steven M. Tobias
22. Zonal flows as statistical equilibria Freddy Bouchet and Antoine Venaille
23. Zonostrophy and other quadratic invariants in drift and quasi-geostrophic wave turbulence Katie L. Harper, Brenda E. Quinn, Sergey V. Nazarenko and Miguel D. Bustamante
24. Kinetic theory and quasilinear theories of jet dynamics Freddy Bouchet, Cesare Nardini and Tomas Tangarife
25. Statistical state dynamics: a new perspective on turbulence in shear flow Brian F. Farrell and Petros J. Ioannou
26. Zonal flow as pattern formation Jeffrey B. Parker and John A. Krommes
27. Emergence of non-zonal coherent structures Nikolaos A. Bakas and Petros J. Ioannou
Part VII. Material Transport in Flows with Jets: 28. Anisotropic and inhomogeneous eddy-induced transport in flows with jets Igor Kamenkovich, Pavel Berloff and Irina I. Rypina
29. Turbulence, diffusion and mixing barriers in flows with zonal jets Boris Galperin, Semion Sukoriansky, Stefania Espa, Guglielmo Lacorata, Nadejda Dikovskaya and Jesse Hoemann.

Subject Areas: Space science [TTD], Mechanics of fluids [TGMF], Mechanics of solids [TGMD], Meteorology & climatology [RBP], Oceanography [seas RBKC], Atmospheric physics [PHVJ], Plasma physics [PHFP], Solar system: the Sun & planets [PGS]