Lagrangian Oceanography

Sergey V. Prants is the Head of the Department of Oceanic and Atmospheric Physics and Head of the Laboratory of Nonlinear Dynamical Systems of the Pacific Oceanological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences. His research interests comprise of nonlinear dynamical processes, Hamiltonian and dissipative chaos, self-organization, and dynamical symmetries. He's the author of five books and one hundred papers in international journals.

• Order in Chaos in Ocean Currents.- Chaotic Mixing and Cross-Stream Transport in Idealized Models of Oceanic Currents.- Oceans from Space and Operative Oceanography.- Large-Scale Mixing and Transport in the Ocean with Synoptic Lagrangian Maps.- Identification and Study of Eddies in Altimetric and Numerically Generated Velocity Fields.- Large-Scale Mixing and Transport in the Sea of Japan/East Sea.- Impact of the Alaskan Stream Flow on Transport in the North-Western Pacific Ocean.- Lagrangian Fronts in the Ocean and Favorable Fishing Grounds.- Lagrangian Simulation of Propagation of Fukushima-Derived Radionuclides and their Monitoring in the Ocean.- Appendix. Numerical codes and receipts.