Gravity currents in the environment and the laboratory

Abstract

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.