A sigma-coordinate primitive equation model for studying the circulation in the South Atlantic. Part I: Model configuration with error estimates

Deep-Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers

Volumn 45, Issue 4-5, 1998, Pages 543-572

  Barnier, Bernard ^a   Marchesiello, Patrick ^a   De Miranda, Anne Pimenta ^a   Molines, Jean Marc ^a   Coulibaly, Macky ^a  

^a Institut de Mecanique de Grenoble   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERROR CORRECTION; MODELING; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; SMOOTHING; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT;

(SOUTH); ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0032052313     PISSN: 09670637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0967-0637(97)00086-1     Document Type: Article

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