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 dynamical...

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Main Author:	Wunsch, Carl (Author)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1996
Subjects:	Mathematisches Modell Ocean circulation / Mathematical models Inverse problems (Differential equations) Meeresströmung Inverses Problem
Online Access:	BSB01 FHN01 Volltext
Summary:	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
Item Description:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
Physical Description:	1 online resource (xiv, 442 pages)
ISBN:	9780511629570
DOI:	10.1017/CBO9780511629570