Instabilities in Continuous Media (Contributions to Current Research in Geophysics, Vol.12)

Contents: Introduction by L. Knopoff (et al.); On the Dynamics of Rotating Fluids and Planetary Atmospheres: A Summary of Some Recent Work by Raymond Hide; Convection-Driven Zonal Flows in the Major Planets by F. H. Busse; The Amplitude of Turbulent Shear Flow by Willem V.R. Malkus; A Model for Nonlinear Wave Interactions by Kenneth M. Watson; Nonlinear Diffusion: Self-Similarity and Traveling-Waves by William I. Newman; Constitutive Relations for Fault Slip and Earthquake Instabilities by James R. Rice; Patterns of Stress Corrosion: Geometry of the Principal Stresses by A.M. Gabrielov (et al.); Crack Fusion as a Model for Repetitive Seismicity by L. Knopoff (et al.); Deterministic and Statistical Properties of the Westerlies by A. Speranza; The Charney-Stern Theorem on Barotropic-Baroclinic Instability by Arnt Eliassen