Implementation of an atmosphere-ocean general circulation model on the expanded spherical cube

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 132, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 2845-2863

  Adcroft, Alistair ^a   Campin, Jean Michel ^a   Hill, Chris ^a   Marshall, John ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; HYDRODYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; VECTORS;

ARBITRARY GRIDS; CIRCULATION MODELS; HYDRODYNAMICAL KERNEL; VECTOR-INVARIANT FORM;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; EDDY COVARIANCE; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; SIMULATION;

EID: 11844285712     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR2823.1     Document Type: Article

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