Implementation of a Barotropic-Baroclinic Time Splitting for Isopycnic Coordinate Ocean Modeling

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 148, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 579-604

  Higdon, Robert L ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Barotropic baroclinic time splitting; Numerical solution of partial differential equations; Ocean circulation; Stability analysis; Time discretization

Indexed keywords

OCEANOGRAPHY; TOPOGRAPHY;

BAROCLINIC; BAROTROPIC; BAROTROPIC-BAROCLINIC TIME SPLITTING; NUMERICAL SOLUTION OF PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; OCEAN CIRCULATION; OCEAN MODEL; SPLITTINGS; STABILITY ANALYZE; TIME DISCRETIZATION; TIME SPLITTING;

STABILITY;

EID: 0000499838     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jcph.1998.6130     Document Type: Article

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