An Oceanic General Circulation Model in Pressure Coordinates

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2000, Pages

  Huang, Ruixin ^a   Jin, Xiangze ^b   Zhang, Xuehong ^b  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Mase conserving model; Non Boussinesq; Pressure coordinates

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347305658     PISSN: 02561530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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