Author

Publication

1996 - Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England

Language

English

Word Count

110,500 words, Guess

Page Count

442 pages

Identifiers

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Classifications

  • DDC551.47
  • LCCGC288.5 .W86 1996

Description

The movement of oceanic water has important consequences for a variety of applications, such as climate change, biological productivity, sea-level change, weather forecasting, and many others. This book addresses the problem of inferring the state of the ocean circulation, understanding it dynamically, and even forecasting it through a quantitative combination of theory and observation. It focuses on so-called inverse methods and related methods of statistical inference. Both time-independent and time-dependent problems are considered, including Gauss-Markov estimation, sequential estimators and adjoint/Pontryagin principle methods. This book is intended for use as a graduate level text for students of oceanography and other related fields. It will also be of interest to working physical oceanographers.

Subjects

Topics

Ocean circulationMathematical modelsMathematics, problems, exercises, etcInverse problem (Differential equations)Inverse problems (Differential equations)Ocean circulation -- Mathematical models.

Other Editions

  • The ocean circulation inverse problemCambridge University Press1996-01-01

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