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| (Above) A model of the Earth's orbit around the sun and the top of the atmosphere solar radiation. Matlab allows complex mathematical problems to be solved and the results presented using rich graphics (Kostadinov, T.S. and Gilb, R.: Earth Orbit v2.1: a 3-D visualization and analysis model of Earth's orbit, Milankovitch cycles and insolation, Geosci, Model Dev. Discuss., 6, (2013) 5947-5980). |
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| (Above) The 3-D thermo-mechanical; higher-order ISSM model running within Matlab. The wealth of Matlab in-built functions and the ability to incorporate code written in other languages (Fortran 90 and C++) means that Matlab is commonly used in the development of sophisticated models (http://issm.jpl.nasa.gov). |
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| (Above) A 1-D dynamical model of sub-sea methane hydrate. The Matlab environment allowed the model to be thoroughly evaluated. Here, model predictions re being compared against down-core chemical measurements. Later the Matlab model was rewritten into Fortran 90 and parallelised to run over global domains (Buffett, B. and Archer, D. Global inventory of methane clathrate: sensitivity to changes in the deep ocean, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 227 (2004) 185-199). |
