Ocean Modelling for Beginners: Using Open-Source Software

by Jochen Kïmpf

Overview

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

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783662502334
Publisher:	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publication date:	12/24/2010
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2009
Pages:	175
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

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