Lagrangian Analysis and Prediction of Coastal and Ocean Dynamics (Paperback)

Preface; 1. Evolution of Lagrangian methods in oceanography H. Thomas Rossby; 2. Measuring surface currents with Surface Velocity Program drifters: the instrument, its data, and some recent results R. Lumpkin and M. Pazos; 3. Favourite trajectories A. S. Bower, H. Furey, S. Grodsky, J. Carton, L. R. Centurioni, P. P. Niiler, Y. Kim, D.-K. Lee, V.A. Sheremet, N. Garfield, C. A. Collins, T. A. Rago, R. Paquette, V. Kourafalou, E. Williams, T. Lee, M. Lankhorst, W. Zenk, Arthur J. Mariano, E. H. Ryan, P.-N. Poulain, H. Valdimarsson and S.-A. Malmberg; 4. Particle motion in a sea of eddies C. Pasquero, A. Bracco, A. Provenzale and J. B. Weiss; 5. Inertial particle dynamics on the rotating Earth N. Paldor; 6. Predictability of Lagrangian motion in the upper ocean L. I. Piterbarg, T. M. Ozgokmen, Annalisa Griffa and Arthur J. Mariano; 7. Lagrangian data assimilation in ocean general circulation models A. Molcard, Tamay Ozgokmen, Annalisa Griffa, L. I. Piterbarg and T. M. Chin; 8. Dynamic consistency and Lagrangian data in oceanography: mapping, assimilation and optimization schemes T. M. Chin, K. Ide, C. K. R. T. Jones, L. Kuznetsov and Arthur J. Mariano; 9. Observing turbulence regimes and Lagrangian dispersal properties in the ocean V. Rupolo; 10. Lagrangian biophysical dynamics D. B. Olson; 11. Plankton: Lagrangian inhabitants of the sea G. L. Hitchcock and R. K. Cowen; 12. A Lagrangian stochastic model for the dynamics of a stage structured population. Application to a copepod population G. Buffoni, M. G. Mazzocchi and S. Pasquali; 13. Lagrangian analysis and prediction of coastal and ocean dynamics (LAPCOD) Arthur J. Mariano and E. H. Ryan.