A generalized coordinate ocean model and a comparison of the bottom boundary layer dynamics in terrain-following and in z-level grids

Ocean Modelling

Volumn 6, Issue 3-4, 2004, Pages 379-403

  Ezer, Tal ^a   Mellor, George L ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Numerical modeling; Ocean mixing; Sigma coordinates

Indexed keywords

BENTHIC BOUNDARY LAYER; COORDINATE; MIXING; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; TURBULENCE; WATER MASS;

EID: 0347656919     PISSN: 14635003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1463-5003(03)00026-X     Document Type: Article

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