Stability analysis of geostrophic adjustment on hexagonal grids for regions with variable depth

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 133, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 3335-3344

  Torsvik, Tomas ^a   Thiem, Øyvind ^a   Berntsen, Jarle ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LINEAR EQUATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; NUMERICAL METHODS; ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; STABILITY; VECTORS;

HEXAGONAL GRIDS; LINEAR SHALLOW WATER EQUATIONS; OCEAN CIRCULATION MODELS; STABILITY ANALYSIS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; SHALLOW-WATER EQUATION; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT;

EID: 28944438254     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR3036.1     Document Type: Article

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