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Rainer Feistel Dr. rer. nat. habil. (1976, 1979 Univ. Rostock) |
- My Scientific Interests
- Thermodynamics of Seawater
- Theory of Complex Systems
You Can Download From Here
- Coefficients of the GIBBS
Thermodynamic Potential of Seawater G(s,t,p)
(incl. a BASIC DEMO for DOS). You may find these coefficients useful if you use or
develop your own software/hardware for oceanographic investigations
- A new 2003 Version of the
(1.1 MByte MS Word File) has been submitted to Progress in Oceanography recently.
- A fast 25 term equation of state EOS_25 derived from this 1995 GIBBS
potential, as described in the 2002
by McDougall, Jackett, Wright and Feistel.
The code is already implemented in MOM4 and NCAR models.
A MATLAB version has been developed by Carsten Eden (IfM Kiel)
An improved MATLAB version was created by Jan Reissmann (IOW)
Source code is available here as:
large variety of thermodynamic properties of water, seawater, ice and sea ice.
You may find this program useful if you often need to know specific values like density,
entropy, or sound speed of seawater for given salinity, temperature and pressure.
There are computation bugs in 2 tables of the 1998
paper about sea ice properties. Here are the corrected
properties like grammar complexities, subword entropies, or surrogate statistics.
It can be used to study the information content of symbolic dynamics time series,
genetic DNA or protein sequences,or just usual ASCI text files.
based on GSHHS (Global Self-consistent Hierarchical High-resolution Shorelines) data.
Regional access speeds up drawing of world-wide high resolution polygons,
nested structures are required for land masking or rendering with tools like OpenGL .
GSHHS is a modified PC version of the files computed by Wessel & Smith .
GSHHS is self-consistent and can be used for drawing shorelines on its own.
RANGS is an access directory to GSHHS and can only be used together with GSHHS.
GSHHS and RANGS are available at different resolution levels. For more details see
RANGS.WPD (WordPerfect)
RANGS.PS (Postscript)
RANGS.HTM (converted to HTML, a bit rugged)
RANGS has been published in EOS , the Newspaper of the AGU, June 7, 1999.
For using RANGS, here is an example program in Visual Basic: RANGS.FRM
Still in VB, but using Win APIs to be faster and capable of filling is: FILL.FRM
A Java Demo program has been written by David Mikesell (University of Virginia)
Download MAPPER.ZIP (86,997,788 Bytes, incl. GSHHS/RANGS files, from here)
Download MAPPER0.ZIP (29,202 Bytes, without GSHHS/RANGS files, from here)
| Resolution | Download | RANGS | Download | GSHHS |
| < 100m | rangs(0).zip | (2,363,145 bytes) | gshhs(0).zip | (59,825,741 bytes) |
| 200m | rangs(1).zip | (2,131,805 bytes) | gshhs(1).zip | (14,710,148 bytes) |
| 1 km | rangs(2).zip | (1,270,475 bytes) | gshhs(2).zip | (3,738,936 bytes) |
| 5 km | rangs(3).zip | (889,511 bytes) | gshhs(3).zip | (803,986 bytes) |
| 25 km | rangs(4).zip | (686,442 bytes) | gshhs(4).zip | (121,645 bytes) |
- You intend a Visit ? Lern about Warnemuende and Rostock , come by Train , Ferry , Plane or Car .
- If you do not know about SYSERs yet, read Vladimir G. Redko's page.
- The never-ending story about Entropy has been summarized by Chris Hillman .
- There are Political Maps of all Countries of the world, and many Others
- Looking for global Topography data? The 5' resolution ETOPO5 is still the best I know.
- The recent 1996 Topography with 30" resolution GTOPO30 covers only land, unfortunately.
- The Baltic Sea Drainage Area map is available from the EU project BDBP
- A comprehensive Oceanography Textbook has been offered online by Matthias Tomczak .
- An introduction to Properties of Seawater has been written by Lynne Talley .
- A lot about Sea Ice Properties you can find in CRREL reports.
- Various Physical Constants and Units are given here , and for planet Earth .
- The Periodic Table of elements made by Mark Winter can be used interactively with fun.
- Conversion between Graphics File Formats is fast and easy by Irfan's viewer.
- Scientific Screen Savers you can download from John Walker's amazing pages.
- If your name is Rainer, too, you may want to look at this
- If your name is Feistel, too, you may want to learn about some of us on the web.
Some WWW Links
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| Dr. Rainer Feistel | ||
| Institut
fuer Ostseeforschung Seestrasse 15 D-18119 Warnemuende Germany Tel +49-381-5197-152 Fax +49-381-5197-4818 | ||
| Email rainer.feistel@io-warnemuende.de |
| Web posted on 17 Feb 1999, last update: 06 Feb 2003 |  |