Ocean forecasting in terrain-following coordinates: Formulation and skill assessment of the Regional Ocean Modeling System

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 227, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 3595-3624

  Haidvogel, D B ^a   Arango, H ^a   Budgell, W P ^b   Cornuelle, B D ^c   Curchitser, E ^a   Di Lorenzo, E ^d   Fennel, K ^e   Geyer, W R ^f   Hermann, A J ^g   Lanerolle, L ^h   Levin, J ^a   McWilliams, J C ⁱ   Miller, A J ^c   Moore, A M ^j   Powell, T M ^k   Shchepetkin, A F ⁱ   Sherwood, C R ^l   Signell, R P ^l   Warner, J C ^l   Wilkin, J ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF MARINE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^f WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^h NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^k UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^l U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

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Author keywords

Biogeochemical cycles; Incompressible Navier Stokes equations; Regional ocean prediction; Sea ice modeling; Split explicit time stepping

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; INTERPOLATION; LANDFORMS; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEA ICE; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; INCOMPRESSIBLE (NAVIER )STOKES EQUATION; INCOMPRESSIBLE NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; REGIONAL OCEAN MODELING SYSTEM; REGIONAL OCEAN PREDICTION; SEA ICE MODELING; SKILL ASSESSMENT; SPLIT-EXPLICIT TIME STEPPING; TERRAIN FOLLOWING; TIME-STEPPING;

FORECASTING;

EID: 39549112473     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2007.06.016     Document Type: Article

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