Geophysical Fluid Dynamics

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Study of naturally accruing large scale flow on the earth surface and other planet is called geophysical fluid dynamics. The basic field for study is the flow of oceanic current and the air around the earth as well as the other planet. Two major phenomena due to planetary rotation are rotation of the fluid and stratification. To describe the nature of geophysical fluid once need to consider it as Newtonian fluid which follows linear relationship between shear stress τ and strain u and the equations involved are conservation of momentum (newton second law) and conservation of energy.