Grid-scale instability of convective-adjustment schemes

Journal of Marine Research

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 407-420

  Cessi, Paola ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; GRIDS;

CONVECTION; CONVECTIVE-ADJUSTMENT ALGORITHMS; GRID-SCALE INSTABILITY; VERTICAL MIXING;

EID: 0029853343     PISSN: 00222402     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1357/0022240963213529     Document Type: Article

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