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.
Lars Petter Røed is a Professor Emeritus at the Department of Geosciences of the University of Oslo. Since 1994 he is also a Senior Scientist at the Norwegian Meteorological Institute. His research interests include physical oceanography and numerical modeling, climate change, numerical ocean weather prediction, mesoscale ocean circulation and the role of eddies in the heat transport of the world oceans. He has been teaching scientific computing in his field of expertise for many years.
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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.