Atmospheres and Oceans on Computers Fundamental Numerical Methods for Geophysical Fluid Dynamics /

• Main Author: Røed, Lars Petter (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Springer Textbooks in Earth Sciences, Geography and Environment,
• Subjects: Oceanography.; Atmospheric sciences.; Physics.; Applied mathematics.; Engineering mathematics.; Atmospheric Sciences.; Numerical and Computational Physics, Simulation.; Mathematical and Computational Engineering.

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 fo...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Governing equations
• Preliminaries
• Time-marching problems
• The diffusion problem
• The advection problem
• The Shallow-water approximation
• Open boundary conditions
• general vertical coordinates
• Two-dimensional problems
• Advanced topics
• Appendix: Introduction to Fortran via examples.