On a Wind-Driven, Double-Gyre, Quasi-Geostrophic Ocean Model: Numerical Simulations and Structural Analysis

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 155, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 387-409

  Shen, Jie ^a   Medjo, T Tachim ^b   Wang, S ^c  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Double gyre; Quasi geostrophic; Spectral projection method; Structural stability, structural bifurcation; Wind driven ocean circulation

Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICS; DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS; NUMERICAL MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHY; STABILITY; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

DOUBLE-GYRE; OCEAN CIRCULATION; PROJECTION METHOD; QUASI-GEOSTROPHIC; SPECTRAL PROJECTIONS; SPECTRAL-PROJECTION METHOD; STRUCTURAL BIFURCATION; STRUCTURAL STABILITIES; STRUCTURAL STABILITY, STRUCTURAL BIFURCATION; WIND-DRIVEN OCEAN CIRCULATION;

NUMERICAL METHODS;

EID: 0043130073     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jcph.1999.6344     Document Type: Article

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