Chapter 1
Requirements
Abstract This chapter lists the software packages required including download
links. FORTRAN 95 will be employed as the main programming language. SciLab
will be used for graphical display and animations of results. Some useful tips are
given on how the reader should organise his/her work.
1.1 Software Overview
The following classes of software are required for this book:
• a suitable programming language including compiler to create executable programs of your codes
• an advanced scientifi data visualisation program to produce graphs and animations
• a text editor to write model codes.
There are many excellent professional software packages on the market, but they
typically come at a fairly high cost. Luckily, there are so-called open-source programs, being free of charge and running on most computer platforms. Exercises of
this book are exclusively based on such open-source software. Hence, apart from
having access to a personal computer, there are no additional financia burdens that
could prevent the reader from becoming an experienced flui modeller!
1.2 Programming Language and Compiler
Exercises of this book use the FORTRAN 95 programming language. Although this
language is relatively old (the f rst version was produced in 1957), it is still commonly used by the scientifi community, in particular for large model applications
run on the world’s biggest computer platforms, so-called Supercomputers.
Model codes of this book have been tested with the FORTRAN compiler G95
(Version 0.91) that can be downloaded from:
http://www.g95.org/
J. K¨ ampf, Ocean Modelling for Beginners,
DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-00820-7 1, C
Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2009
1
Requirements
Abstract This chapter lists the software packages required including download
links. FORTRAN 95 will be employed as the main programming language. SciLab
will be used for graphical display and animations of results. Some useful tips are
given on how the reader should organise his/her work.
1.1 Software Overview
The following classes of software are required for this book:
• a suitable programming language including compiler to create executable programs of your codes
• an advanced scientifi data visualisation program to produce graphs and animations
• a text editor to write model codes.
There are many excellent professional software packages on the market, but they
typically come at a fairly high cost. Luckily, there are so-called open-source programs, being free of charge and running on most computer platforms. Exercises of
this book are exclusively based on such open-source software. Hence, apart from
having access to a personal computer, there are no additional financia burdens that
could prevent the reader from becoming an experienced flui modeller!
1.2 Programming Language and Compiler
Exercises of this book use the FORTRAN 95 programming language. Although this
language is relatively old (the f rst version was produced in 1957), it is still commonly used by the scientifi community, in particular for large model applications
run on the world’s biggest computer platforms, so-called Supercomputers.
Model codes of this book have been tested with the FORTRAN compiler G95
(Version 0.91) that can be downloaded from:
http://www.g95.org/
J. K¨ ampf, Ocean Modelling for Beginners,
DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-00820-7 1, C
Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2009
1