Self-adapting open boundaries for a sigma coordinate model of the eastern North Atlantic

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 105, Issue C5, 2000, Pages 11279-11297

  Penduff, Thierry ^a   Barnier, Bernard ^a   De Verdière, Alain Colin ^b  

^a LEGI   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BRETAGNE OCCIDENTALE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; OPEN OCEAN;

(NORTH); ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0042246371     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999jc900335     Document Type: Article

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