Ocean Modelling for Beginners: Using Open-Source Software

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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.

Author(s): Jochen Kämpf (auth.)
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 2009

Language: English
Pages: 175
Tags: Oceanography;Computer Applications in Earth Sciences;Fluid- and Aerodynamics;Geophysics/Geodesy

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Requirements....Pages 1-3
Motivation....Pages 5-16
Basics of Geophysical Fluid Dynamics....Pages 17-63
Long Waves in a Channel....Pages 65-89
2D Shallow-Water Modelling....Pages 91-118
Rotational Effects....Pages 119-167
Back Matter....Pages 1-6