ocean modelling for beginners: using open-source software

ISBN-13: 9783642008191 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 192 str.

Jochen Kampf

Opis

Offers an introduction to computer-based modelling of oceanic processes. This title contains over twenty practical exercises, using freely available Open-Source software, and covers a range of topics from long surface waves, geostrophic flows, through to the general wind-driven circulation including western boundary currents and mesoscale eddies.

Spis treści

Requirements.- Motivation.- Basics of Geophysical Fluid Dynamics.- Long Waves in a Channel.- 2D Shallow-Water Modelling.- Rotational Effects.

O autorze

This book offers excellent interactive learning material for undergraduate/graduate students interested in dynamical processes occurring in the ocean and the computer-based modelling thereof. Only minimum mathematical background knowledge is required and the many exercises of this book are based on freely available open-source software. Complete model codes and animation scripts are provided for each exercise.