Fernando García-García / Gerardo Cisneros / Agustin Fernandez-Eguiarte / Roman Alvarez (eds.)

Numerical Simulations in the Environmental and Earth Sciences

Proceedings of the Second Unam-Cray Supercomputing Conference
Herausgeber: Cisneros, Gerardo; Garcia-Garcia, Fernando; Fernandez-Eguiarte, Agustin

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A wide-ranging account of modelling environmental and earth processes through numerical simulations.

Increases in computer power and technology have rapidly advanced the applications of numerical modelling in environmental and earth sciences. The progress of numerical modelling in atmospheric, oceanic and geophysical sciences was the topic of an international conference held by the National Autonomous University of Mexico. The review articles and research papers in this volume constitute a wide-ranging account of modelling environmental and earth processes through a variety of numerical simulations. Sections are devoted to such topics as general circulation models and global change, methods of geophysical data assimilation, and mathematical and computational methods with geophysical applications. This book forms an excellent introduction and overview for graduate students as well as a critical update for researchers.

Review quote:
'(?)0; there are numerous excellent articles and the book gives a reasonable introduction to those researchers and graduate students who have some knowledge to the topic.' D. B. Ingham, Contemporary Physics

Table of contents:
Part I. General Circulation Models and Global Change; Part III. Geophysical Data Assimilation; Part IV. Methods and Applications in Geophysics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. März 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 189mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 585g
• ISBN-13: 9780521026048
• ISBN-10: 0521026040
• Artikelnr.: 22522793

Inhaltsangabe

Participants; Scientific committee; Organizing committee; Preface; Part I.
General Circulation Models and Global Change: 1. A general circulation
model of the atmosphere-ocean system; 2. Coupled ocean-atmosphere modeling:
computing and scientific aspects; 3. The OCCAM global ocean model; 4.
Climatic asymmetries relative to the equator; 5. On the use of a general
circulation model to study regional climate; 6. A numerical study of the
circulation and sea surface temperature of the Gulf of Mexico; 7. Pacific
region CO2 climate change in a global coupled climate model; 8. Prospects
and problems in modeling the impacts of climate change in Latin America; 9.
PIXSAT, a digital image processing system in a CRAY-UNIX environment; 10.
Marine productivity seasonal forecast along the Ecuadorian coastal zone
based on physical models of ENSO; 11. Land cover classification by means of
satellite imagery and supercomputer resources; Part. II. Dispersion and
Mesoscale Modeling: 12. Environmental applications of mesoscale atmospheric
models; 13. An integrated air pollution modeling system: application to the
Los Angeles Basin; 14. An h-adapting finite element model for atmospheric
transport of pollutants; 15. The applicability of a mesoscale model in the
Valley of Mexico during extreme air pollution episodes; 16. Mexico city air
quality simulations under different fuel consumption scenarios; 17.
Numerical modeling of pollutant particle diffusion in the atmospheric
boundary layer; 18. Investigating the dispersion inside idealized urban
street canyons using a k-epsilon turbulence model; 19. Coupling of an urban
dispersion model and an energy-budget model; 20. A mesoscale meteorological
model to predict windflow in the Valley of Mexico; 21. Some experiments
with a three-dimensional semi-lagrangian and semiimplicit cloud model; 22.
Large eddy modeling of stratocumulus clouds; Part III. Geophysical Data
Assimilation: 23. Computational aspects of Kalman filtering and smoothing
for atmospheric data assimilation; 24. Computational aspects of Goddard's
physical-space statistical analysis system (PSAS); 25. A study on the
influence of the Pacific and Atlantic SST on the northeast Brazil monthly
precipitation using singular value decomposition; 26. Numerically efficient
methods applicable to the eigenvalue problems arising in linear stability
analysis; 27. Use of canonical correlation analysis to predict the spatial
rainfall variability over northeast Brazil; 28. Identification of the ITCZ
axis by computational techniques; 29. Variational assimilation of acoustic
tomography data and point observations: some comparisons and suggestions to
perform error analysis; Part IV. Methods and Applications in Geophysics:
30. Do man-made obstacles produce dynamical p-wave localization in Mexico
City earthquakes?; 31. Domain decomposition methods for model
parallelization; 32. Parallelization using th-collocation; 32. A method for
simultaneous estimation of multiphase relative permeability and capillary
pressure functions.