Ocean Modelling for Beginners - Using Open-Source Software

This book introduces computer-based modeling of oceanic processes. It contains over twenty practical exercises, using freely available open-Source software, and covers a wide range of topics, from long surface waves to general wind-driven circulation.

List of contents

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

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.

Summary

This book introduces computer-based modeling of oceanic processes. It contains over twenty practical exercises, using freely available open-Source software, and covers a wide range of topics, from long surface waves to general wind-driven circulation.

Product details

• Authors: Jochen Kämpf
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2017
• EAN: 9783662502334
• ISBN: 978-3-662-50233-4
• No. of pages: 175
• Dimensions: 158 mm x 234 mm x 9 mm
• Weight: 307 g
• Illustrations: XV, 175 p.
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Miscellaneous; Geophysik, B, Meteorologie und Klimatologie (Klimaforschung), Geophysics, Klassische Mechanik, environmental science, engineering & technology, Earth and Environmental Science, Classical mechanics, Meteorology & climatology, Classical and Continuum Physics, Geophysics and Environmental Physics, Meteorology and climatology, Solid Earth Sciences, Fluid mechanics, Fluid- and Aerodynamics, Fluids, Oceanography, Ocean Sciences, Earth System Sciences, Geophysics/Geodesy, Climatology