A nonhydrostatic mesoscale ocean model. Part II: Numerical implementation

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 26, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 1881-1900

  Mahadevan, Amala ^a   Oliger, Joseph ^b   Street, Robert ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRCULATION MODELLING; NONHYDROSTATIC MESOSCALE OCEAN MODEL; NUMERICAL IMPLEMENTATION;

GULF OF MEXICO;

EID: 0030435020     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0485(1996)026<1881:ANMOMP>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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