Stochastic Modelling in Physical Oceanography

Robert Adler

ISBN 10: 1461275334 / ISBN 13: 9781461275336

Verlag: Birkhäuser Boston, Birkhäuser Boston Sep 2011, 2011

Beschreibung

This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -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.Springer Basel AG in Springer Science + Business Media, Heidelberger Platz 3, 14197 Berlin 488 pp. Englisch.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9781461275336

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Stochastic Modelling in Physical Oceanography
• Verlag: Birkhäuser Boston, Birkhäuser Boston Sep 2011
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 1461275334
• ISBN-13: 9781461275336
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Zustand: Neu
• Abmessungen: 235B x 155 H x 27 T Millimeter Breite: 235 mm, Höhe: 155 mm, Tiefe: 27 mm
• Gewicht: 733 Gramm

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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.