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Geophysical fluid dynamics

Model forecast of Hurricane Mitch created by the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory. The arrows are wind vectors and the grey shading indicates an equivalent potential temperature surface that highlights the surface inflow layer and eyewall region.

Geophysical fluid dynamics, in its broadest meaning, refers to the fluid dynamics of naturally occurring flows, such as lava flows, oceans, and planetary atmospheres, on Earth and other planets.[1]

Two physical features that are common to many of the phenomena studied in geophysical fluid dynamics are rotation of the fluid due to the planetary rotation and stratification (layering). The applications of geophysical fluid dynamics do not generally include the circulation of the mantle, which is the subject of geodynamics, or fluid phenomena in the magnetosphere.

  1. ^ Vallis, Geoffrey K. (24 August 2016). "Geophysical fluid dynamics: whence, whither and why?". Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences. 472 (2192): 20160140. Bibcode:2016RSPSA.47260140V. doi:10.1098/rspa.2016.0140. PMC 5014103. PMID 27616918.

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