Textbook on Rotating Hydraulics

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» Section 1.1
The approximations of hydraulics.

» Section 1.2
The shallow water equations and one-dimensional wave propagation.

» Section 1.3
Nonlinear steepening and rarefacation.

» Section 1.4 
The hydraulics of steady, homogeneous flow over an obstacle.

» Section 1.5
Hydraulics in abstract.

» Section 1.6
Hydraulic Jumps, Bores, Rarefaction Waves, and Long's Experiment.

» Section 1.7
Solution to the initial-value problem.

» Section 1.8
Wave reflections and upstream influence in time-dependent flows.

» Section 1.9
Friction and Bottom Drag.

» Section 1.10 
Entrainment.

» Section 1.11
Nonlinear dispersion.

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• Section 2.1
  The semigeostrophic approximation in a rotating channel.
• Section 2.2
  Uniform Potential Vorticity: Boundary Layers and Kelvin Waves.
• Section 2.3
  Flow Separation and Frontal Waves.
• Section 2.4
  Steady flow from a deep basin: the WLK model.
• Section 2.5
  Uniform potential vorticity flow from a wide basin: Gill's model.
• Section 2.6
  Uniform potential vorticity flow, revisited.
• Section 2.7
  Flow Reversals and Recirculations.
• Section 2.8
  Non-rectangular cross-sections.
• Section 2.9
  Non-uniform potential vorticity.
• Section 2.10
  Transport Bounds.
• Section 2.11
  Anatomy of an overflow: The Faroese Channels.
• Section 2.12
  Outflow Plumes.
• Section 2.13
  Closed upstream basins with forcing and dissipation.
• Section 2.14
  Comparisons between observed and predicted transports.

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• Section 3.1
  Linear Rossby adjustment and geostrophic control in a channel.
• Section 3.2
  Rossby Adjustment: Weakly Nonlinear Behavior.
• Section 3.3
  Rossby Adjustment in a Channel: Fully Nonlinear Case.
• Section 3.4
  Long's problem in a rotating channel.
• Section 3.5
  Shock joining.
• Section 3.6
  The Kelvin Bore.
• Section 3.7
  Shocks in separated flows.
• Section 3.8
  Hydraulic control in a dispersive system: flow over an infinite ridge.
• Section 3.9
  Ageostrophic Instability

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• Section 4.1
  Curvature effects and flow separation.
• Section 4.2
  Coastal upwelling fronts and jets.
• Section 4.3
  Oblique shocks and expansion fans: the supercritical marine layer.
• Section 4.4
  Expansion fans and compressions: formal theory.
• Section 4.5
  Rotating gravity currents.

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• Section 5.1
  Formulation of two-layer, semigeostrophic models
• Section 5.2
  Basic theory for a nonrotating channel.
• Section 5.3
  Flow over an obstacle.
• Section 5.4
  Flow through a pure contraction.
• Section 5.5
  Overmixing and maximal exchange in estuaries.
• Section 5.6
  Overmixing in inverse estuaries.
• Section 5.7
  Maximal and submaximal exchange between two deep basins with rotation.
• Section 5.8
  Maximal exchange through a pure contraction with rotation.
• Section 5.9
  Strangulation of the baroclinic flow by the barotropic flow.

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»Section 6.1
Introduction.

» Section 6.2
Potential vorticity front in a channel.

» Section 6.3
Equatorial jets.

» Section 6.4
A mid-latitude jet.