Earth System Modelling - Volume 2

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Overview

   • Luca Bonaventura, George Mozdzynski

   Pages 1-2

3. Numerical Algorithms for ESM: State of the Art

   • Luca Bonaventura, Aike Beckmann

   Pages 3-17

4. Numerical Algorithms for ESM: Future Perspectives for Atmospheric Modelling

   • Luca Bonaventura

   Pages 19-24

5. Numerical Algorithms for ESM: Future Perspectives for Ocean Modelling

   • S. Danilov, J. Schröter

   Pages 25-34

6. Efficiency for Adaptive Triangular Meshes: Key Issues of Future Approaches

   • Jörn Behrens

   Pages 35-49

7. Code Design and Quality Control

   • Steve Easterbrook

   Pages 51-65

8. Code Optimisation

   • George Mozdzynski

   Pages 67-76

9. Code Parallelisation On Massively Parallel Machines

   • V. Balaji

   Pages 77-88

10. Future Perspectives

    • Luca Bonaventura

    Pages 89-91

11. Back Matter

    Pages 93-96

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Collected articles in this series are dedicated to the development and use of software for earth system modelling and aims at bridging the gap between IT solutions and climate science. The particular topic covered in this volume addresses the historical development, state of the art and future perspectives of the mathematical techniques employed for numerical approximation of the equations describing atmospheric and oceanic motion. Furthermore, it describes the main computer science and software engineering strategies employed to turn these mathematical methods into effective tools for understanding earth's climate and forecasting its evolution. These methods and the resulting computer algorithms  lie at the core of earth system models and  are essential for  their effectiveness and predictive skill.

• Computational Fluid Dynamics
• Earth System Science
• Numerical Analysis
• Parallel Computing
• Software Engineering

From the reviews:

“This book surveys various computing techniques used in such applications, and explains the modeling and programming techniques. … A background in differential and integral calculus, general programming, and meshes is required to understand the book. Beginning ESM researchers will get the most from the survey, as well as the many references. The book could be useful as a supplementary text in ESM courses.” (Maulik A. Dave, ACM Computing Reviews, July, 2012)

• , Dipartimento di Matematica, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy

  Luca Bonaventura

• Max-Planck-Institut für Meteorologie, Hamburg, Germany

  René Redler

• MPI für Meteorologie, Hamburg, Germany

  Reinhard Budich

Luca Bonaventura, MOX-Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy email: Luca.Bonaventura@polimi.it

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