A new treatment of the coriolis terms in C-grid models at both high and low resolutions

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 127, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 1928-1936

  Adcroft, Alistair J ^a   Hill, C N ^a   Marshall, J C ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORIOLIS FORCE; GRAVITY WAVE; MODEL; OCEAN;

CORIOLIS FORCE; GRAVITY WAVE; MODEL; OCEANIC CIRCULATION;

EID: 0032744149     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(1999)127<1928:ANTOTC>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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