Overview
- Editors:
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Robert J. Adler
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Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management, Technion University, Haifa, Israel
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Peter Müller
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Department of Oceanography, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, USA
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Boris L. Rozovskii
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Center for Applied Mathematical Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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- René A. Carmona, Stanislav A. Grishin, Stanislav A. Molchanov
Pages 47-68
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- René A. Carmona, Andrea Wang
Pages 69-88
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- Frank S. Henyey, Charles Macaskill
Pages 141-184
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- V. I. Klyatskin, W. A. Woyczynski, D. Gurarie
Pages 221-269
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- Keh-Shin Lii, Murray Rosenblatt
Pages 295-309
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- Arthur J. Mariano, Toshio M. Chin
Pages 311-342
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- L. Piterbarg, B. Rozovskii
Pages 397-421
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Back Matter
Pages 467-469
About this book
The study of the ocean is almost as old as the history of mankind itself. When the first seafarers set out in their primitive ships they had to understand, as best they could, tides and currents, eddies and vortices, for lack of understanding often led to loss of live. These primitive oceanographers were, of course, primarily statisticians. They collected what empirical data they could, and passed it down, ini tially by word of mouth, to their descendants. Data collection continued throughout the millenia, and although data bases became larger, more re liable, and better codified, it was not really until surprisingly recently that mankind began to try to understand the physics behind these data, and, shortly afterwards, to attempt to model it. The basic modelling tool of physical oceanography is, today, the partial differential equation. Somehow, we all 'know" that if only we could find the right set of equations, with the right initial and boundary conditions, then we could solve the mysteries of ocean dynamics once and for all.
Editors and Affiliations
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Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management, Technion University, Haifa, Israel
Robert J. Adler
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Department of Oceanography, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, USA
Peter Müller
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Center for Applied Mathematical Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA
Boris L. Rozovskii