An unrealistic high-salinity tongue simulated in the tropical Atlantic: Another example illustrating the need for a more careful treatment of vertical discretizations in OGCMs

Ocean Modelling

Volumn 1, Issue 2-4, 1999, Pages 101-109

  Oschlies, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Advection scheme; Numerical dispersion

Indexed keywords

EID: 0007402334     PISSN: 14635003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1463-5003(99)00008-6     Document Type: Article

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