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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      04 February 2010
      15 August 2002
      ISBN:
      9780511549991
      9780521806817
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511549991
      Dimensions:
      (247 x 174 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.96kg, 402 Pages
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      • Subjects:
      Atmospheric Science and Meteorology, Mathematics, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Mathematical Modeling and Methods
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    Numerical weather prediction is a problem of mathematical physics. The complex flows in the atmosphere and oceans are believed to be accurately modelled by the Navier-Stokes equations of fluid mechanics together with classical thermodynamics. However, due to the enormous complexity of these equations, meteorologists and oceanographers have constructed approximate models of the dominant, large-scale flows that control the evolution of weather systems and that describe, for example, the dynamics of cyclones and ocean eddies. The simplifications often result in models that are amenable to solution both analytically and numerically. The lectures in these volumes examine and explain why such simplifications to Newton's second law produce accurate, useful models and, just as the meteorologist seeks patterns in the weather, mathematicians seek structure in the governing equations, such as groups of transformations, Hamiltonian structure and stability. This 2002 book and its companion show how geometry and analysis facilitate solution strategies.

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