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Ocean Modelling for Beginners

Using Open-Source Software

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  • 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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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
  2. Requirements

    • Jochen Kämpf
    Pages 1-3
  3. Motivation

    • Jochen Kämpf
    Pages 5-16
  4. Basics of Geophysical Fluid Dynamics

    • Jochen Kämpf
    Pages 17-63
  5. Long Waves in a Channel

    • Jochen Kämpf
    Pages 65-89
  6. 2D Shallow-Water Modelling

    • Jochen Kämpf
    Pages 91-118
  7. Rotational Effects

    • Jochen Kämpf
    Pages 119-167
  8. Back Matter

    Pages 1-6

Authors and Affiliations

  • School of Chemistry, Physics &, Earth Sciences, Flinders University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia

    Jochen Kämpf

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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.

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