Benefit of nesting a regional model into a large-scale ocean model instead of climatology. Application to the West Florida Shelf

Continental Shelf Research

Volumn 28, Issue 4-5, 2008, Pages 561-573

  Barth, A ^a   Alvera Azcarate A ^a   Weisberg, Robert H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Nested model; Open boundary conditions; Shelf circulation; West Florida Shelf

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AGEOSTROPHIC FLOW; BOUNDARY CONDITION; CLIMATE EFFECT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; MODELING; NESTING; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; SALINITY; SHELF DYNAMICS; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TIME SERIES;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF OF MEXICO; WEST FLORIDA SHELF;

EID: 39149109902     PISSN: 02784343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csr.2007.11.004     Document Type: Article

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