Preface "Nonlinear processes in oceanic and atmospheric flows"

TL;DR

This special issue compiles multidisciplinary research on nonlinear phenomena in oceanic and atmospheric flows, highlighting recent advances in understanding transport, jet and wave dynamics, and climate variability.

Contribution

It presents a collection of recent research contributions from a workshop, emphasizing multidisciplinary approaches to nonlinear oceanic and atmospheric processes.

Findings

Characterization of ocean transport in Lagrangian and Eulerian frameworks

Insights into generation and variability of jets and waves

Analysis of statistical properties of El Niño Southern Oscillation

Abstract

Nonlinear phenomena are essential ingredients in many oceanic and atmospheric processes, and successful understanding of them benefits from multidisciplinary collaboration between oceanographers, meteorologists, physicists and mathematicians. The present Special Issue on ``Nonlinear Processes in Oceanic and Atmospheric Flows'' contains selected contributions from attendants to the workshop which, in the above spirit, was held in Castro Urdiales, Spain, in July 2008. Here we summarize the Special Issue contributions, which include papers on the characterization of ocean transport in the Lagrangian and in the Eulerian frameworks, generation and variability of jets and waves, interactions of fluid flow with plankton dynamics or heavy drops, scaling in meteorological fields, and statistical properties of El Ni\~no Southern Oscillation.