Ocean Modelling for Beginners: Using Open-Source Software [Paperback]

This book introduces computer-based modeling of oceanic processes. It contains over twenty practical exercises, using freely available open-Source software, and covers a wide range of topics, from long surface waves to general wind-driven circulation.

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.

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