The Ocean Circulation Inverse Problem

by Carl Wunsch

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521480906
• ISBN13: 9780521480901
• Release Date: June 1996
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 458 Pages
• Weight: 2.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.3" x 10.2"