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Stochastic Modelling in Physical Oceanography

Stochastic Modelling in Physical Oceanography

Rozovskii, B. L.
Müller, Peter
Adler, Robert

Paperback

Series: Progress in Probability, Book 39

Environmental StudiesGeneral MathematicsProbability & Statistics

ISBN10: 1461275334
ISBN13: 9781461275336
Publisher: Birkhauser
Published: Sep 30 2011
Pages: 466
Weight: 1.49
Height: 0.98 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
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.

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