Adaptive mesh refinement for finite-difference ocean models: First experiments

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1239-1250

  Blayo, Eric ^a,b   Debreu, Laurent ^a  

^a UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^b Inst Mathematiques Appl Grenoble   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRCULATION MODELING; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

EID: 0032741260     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0485(1999)029<1239:AMRFFD>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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