On conservation equations in oceanography: How accurate are Boussinesq ocean models?

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 1574-1584

  McDougall, Trevor J ^a   Greatbatch, Richard J ^a   Lu, Youyu ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ERRORS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; VECTORS;

CONSERVATION EQUATIONS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

BOUSSINESQ EQUATION; MIXING; WATER MASS;

EID: 0036564930     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0485(2002)032<1574:OCEIOH>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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