Overview
- Step-by-step introduction to hydrodynamic modelling
- Is suitable for online teaching and external workshops
- Use of freely-available Open-Source software (FORTRAN and SciLab) to cut costs and to make the subject attractive for use also in developing countries
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Ocean Modelling for Beginners
Book Subtitle: Using Open-Source Software
Authors: Jochen Kämpf
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-00820-7
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2009
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-00819-1Published: 24 November 2009
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-50233-4Published: 30 April 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-00820-7Published: 08 October 2009
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 175
Topics: Oceanography, Geophysics and Environmental Physics, Climatology, Fluid- and Aerodynamics, Geophysics/Geodesy