Implementation of a mesh movement scheme in a multiply nested ocean model and its application to air-sea interaction studies

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 127, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 1879-1896

  Ginis, I ^a   Rowley, Clark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELING; METEOROLOGY;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; MODEL; NUMERICAL METHOD;

EID: 0345009045     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(1999)127<1879:ioamms>2.0.co;2     Document Type: Article

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