Three-dimensional turbulent bottom density currents from a high-order nonhydrostatic spectral element model

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 34, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 2006-2026

  Özgökmen, Tamay M ^a   Fischer, Paul F ^b   Duan, Jinqiao ^c   Iliescu, Traian ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c Illinois Institute of Technology   (United States)

^d VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GRAVITY WAVES; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; OCEANOGRAPHY; TURBULENT FLOW; WAVE PROPAGATION;

BOTTOM GRAVITY; THORPE SCALES; WATER MASSES;

OCEAN CURRENTS;

BOTTOM CURRENT; DENSITY CURRENT; MIXING; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; WATER MASS;

EID: 4544374829     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0485(2004)034<2006:TTBDCF>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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