Customer Reviews

Numerical Models of Oceans and Oceanic Processes, Volume 66 (International Geophysics)

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This is a suprisingly overpriced and depth-lacking
book. I am stunned, definitely stunned.

It may probably be used to some advantage by beginners
and/or practitionners of ocean modeling, but as an in
depth guide it just does not do.

I found myself wanting to use it when I picked up knowledge
on the Bryan-Semtner-Cox ocean model from the perspective
of an independent model developer and I found out that
the book was on the whole pretty useless in its content
and structure (i.e. layout).

It probably deserves more than one star, but the
massively exaggerated price just isn't justified.

Instead I would recommend the books by Haidvogel,
Beckman or Kowalik and Murty (both at WSPC) in
addition to some OGCM user guides and papers on the
WEB.

Anyway, similar remarks do apply to Kantha's other
book on Small-scale processes in GFD, although I
found that slightly more useful.

Nevertheless, I should acknowledge the authors' great
courage in attempting so ambitious and potentially
most useful projects. Maybe getting together in a
larger team with better articulated competences would
have helped here.

This book is not only for ocean's specialists but all people concerned with environemental activities. Anyway I'am a teacher in advanced economics in France and I use this book as the best example of complex and multivariables model. The authors demonstrate clearly (read the foreword) the necessity for students to enlarge the field of their scientifics investigations to biochemical, numerical analysis, computing, climate. This book could be read by anyone with a little background in mathematics and with a lot of curiosity.

This book is amazing. You can learn basic physics from chapter, you can learn powerful analysis techiques from appendixs. Obviously authors can clearify very complicate physics phenomena in a simple way, with the help of modeling work.