Advanced Ocean Modelling: Using Open-Source Software

✍ Scribed by Jochen Kämpf (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 193
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book introduces the reader to advanced methods used in the computer-based modelling of fluid processes. This includes nonhydrostatic processes such as breaking internal waves and density-driven convection, but the model code is also used to simulate an El-Niño event! The book contains 25 practical exercises, using freely available Open-Source software suites, which are widely used by the scientific community. In this book, the art of hydrodynamic modelling is made available and transparent to a wider readership. An attractive byproduct of the book is that results are animations rather than still images. Model codes and animation scripts for all exercises are supplied on a website. The reader can adopt model codes for own independent studies

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Introduction....Pages 1-8
1D Models of Ekman Layers....Pages 9-19
Basics of Nonhydrostatic Modelling....Pages 21-96
2.5D Vertical Slice Modelling....Pages 97-124
3D Level Modelling....Pages 125-171
Back Matter....Pages 173-181

✦ Subjects

Oceanography; Earth Sciences, general; Meteorology/Climatology; Earth Sciences, general; Geophysics/Geodesy