Influence of multi-step topography on barotropic waves and consequences for numerical modeling

Ocean Modelling

Volumn 14, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 45-60

  Dukhovskoy, Dmitry S ^a   Morey, Steven L ^a   O'Brien, James J ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Continental shelves; Double Kelvin waves; Numerical models; Ocean mathematical models; Shelf waves; Topographic waves

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY; WAVE TRANSMISSION; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

BAROTROPIC WAVES; CONTINENTAL SHELVES; DOUBLE KELVIN WAVES; ROSSBY WAVES; SHELF WAVES; TOPOGRAPHIC WAVES;

WATER WAVES;

BAROTROPIC WAVE; CONTINENTAL SHELF; EDGE WAVE; KELVIN WAVE; NUMERICAL MODEL; QUASI-GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; ROSSBY WAVE; SHELF WAVE; TOPOGRAPHY; TRANSFORM; WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 33745190528     PISSN: 14635003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ocemod.2006.03.002     Document Type: Article

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