North Atlantic simulations with the Hybrid Coordinate Ocean Model (HYCOM): Impact of the vertical coordinate choice, reference pressure, and thermobaricity

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 33, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 2504-2526

  Chassignet, Eric P ^a   Smith, Linda T ^a   Halliwell, George R ^a   Bleck, Rainer ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEAT FLUX; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

THERMOBARICITY;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; SURFACE PRESSURE;

EID: 1542338918     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0485(2003)033<2504:NASWTH>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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