The regional oceanic modeling system (ROMS): A split-explicit, free-surface, topography-following-coordinate oceanic model

Ocean Modelling

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 347-404

  Shchepetkin, Alexander F ^a   McWilliams, James C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; FILTERS (FOR FLUIDS); HYDRODYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

BAROCLINIC MOMENTUM; BAROCLINIC MOTION; BAROTROPIC PROCESSES; REGIONAL OCEANIC MODELING SYSTEM (ROMS);

OCEANOGRAPHY;

MODELING; OCEANOGRAPHY; TOPOGRAPHY;

EID: 14544301443     PISSN: 14635003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ocemod.2004.08.002     Document Type: Article

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