Ocean Science as a Bridge

A Computer Science Perspective of Bridge Design

Engineers have been designing bridges and other complex structures for millennia. Civil engineering is one of V the most classical of the engineering disciplines-it has C PI& 4 Bwers well-developed designs, procedures, and tools at its disposal. Bridges rarely fall down. In contrast, computer systems design is one of the least classical of the engineering disciplines, and its products are often

A 2020 vision for ocean science

he global ocean is the last physical frontier on Earth. Covering 70 percent of the planetary surface, it is the largest, most complex biome we know. The ocean is a huge, mobile reservoir of heat and chemical mass. As such, it is the " engine " that drives weather-climate systems across the ocean basins and the continents, directly affecting food production , drought, and flooding on land. Water...

Science of Ocean Climate Models

The rich textures and features of the global ocean circulation and its tracer distributions cannot be fully studied in a controlled laboratory setting using a direct physical analog. Consequently, ocean scientists have increasingly turned to numerical models as a rational experimental tool, along with theoretical methods and a growing array of observational measurements, for rendering a mechani...

Ocean science. Ironing out algal issues in the Southern Ocean.

Approximate Bisimulation: A Bridge Between Computer Science and Control Theoryg

Fifty years ago, control and computing were part of a broader system science. After a long period of separate development within each discipline, embedded and hybrid systems have challenged us to re-unite the, now sophisticated theories of continuous control and discrete computing on a broader system theoretic basis. In this paper, we present a framework of system approximation that applies to ...