Barotropic-Baroclinic Time Splitting for Ocean Circulation Modeling

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 135, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 30-53

  Higdon, Robert L ^a   De Szoeke, Roland A ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAROCLINIC; BAROTROPIC; FAST WAVES; OCEAN CIRCULATION; OCEAN CIRCULATION MODELS; SPLITTINGS; TIME DISCRETIZATION; TIME SPLITTING; TIME STEP; TIME-SCALES;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

EID: 0001926297     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jcph.1997.5733     Document Type: Article

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