Biharmonic friction with a Smagorinsky-like viscosity for use in large-scale eddy-permitting ocean models

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 128, Issue 8 II, 2000, Pages 2935-2946

  Griffies, Stephen M ^a   Hallberg, Robert W ^a  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; FRICTION; GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; OCEAN;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SYSTEM; FRICTION; GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION;

EID: 0033787691     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(2000)128<2935:bfwasl>2.0.co;2     Document Type: Article

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