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- Course-based, self-contained and concise primer on the subject matter
- Contains end-of chapter problems
- Offers an appendix on programming in the most popular programming language in the field (FORTRAN) and related exercices
Part of the book series: Springer Textbooks in Earth Sciences, Geography and Environment (STEGE)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This textbook introduces step by step the basic numerical methods to solve the equations governing the motion of the atmosphere and ocean, and describes how to develop a set of corresponding instructions for the computer as part of a code. Today's computers are powerful enough to allow 7-day forecasts within hours, and modern teaching of the subject requires a combination of theoretical and computational approaches.
The presentation is aimed at beginning graduate students intending to become forecasters or researchers, that is, users of existing models or model developers. However, model developers must be well versed in the underlying physics as well as in numerical methods. Thus, while some of the topics discussed in the modeling of the atmosphere and ocean are more advanced, the book ensures that the gap between those scientists who analyze results from model simulations and observations and those who work with the inner works of the model does not widen further.
In this spirit, the course presents methods whereby important balance equations in oceanography and meteorology, namely the advection-diffusion equation and the shallow water equations on a rotating Earth, can be solved by numerical means with little prior knowledge. The numerical focus is on the finite-difference (FD) methods, and although more powerful methods exist, the simplicity of FD makes it ideal as a pedagogical introduction to the subject. The book also includes suitable exercises and computer problems.
Authors and Affiliations
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Department of Geosciences, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway and, Norwegian Meteorological Institute, Oslo, Norway
Lars Petter Røed
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Atmospheres and Oceans on Computers
Book Subtitle: Fundamental Numerical Methods for Geophysical Fluid Dynamics
Authors: Lars Petter Røed
Series Title: Springer Textbooks in Earth Sciences, Geography and Environment
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93864-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-93863-9Published: 13 September 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-06733-5Published: 31 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-93864-6Published: 04 September 2018
Series ISSN: 2510-1307
Series E-ISSN: 2510-1315
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 275
Number of Illustrations: 21 b/w illustrations, 22 illustrations in colour
Topics: Oceanography, Atmospheric Sciences, Numerical and Computational Physics, Simulation, Mathematical and Computational Engineering