The mesoscale variability in the Caribbean Sea. Part I: Simulations and characteristics with an embedded model

Ocean Modelling

Volumn 23, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 82-101

  Jouanno, Julien ^a   Sheinbaum, Julio ^a   Barnier, Bernard ^b   Molines, Jean Marc ^b   Debreu, Laurent ^c   Lemarié, Florian ^c  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN CIENTÍFICA Y DE EDUCACIÓN SUPERIOR DE ENSENADA   (Mexico)

^b LEGI   (France)

^c Institut d'Informatique et de Mathématiques Appliquées de Grenoble   (France)

Author keywords

Caribbean; Embedding; Instability; Mesoscale eddies; Ocean model

Indexed keywords

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS;

ALTIMETRY DATA; BAROCLINIC EDDIES; CARIBBEAN SEA; COLOMBIA; ELSEVIER (CO); GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL (GCM); HIGH RESOLUTIONS; INTENSE (CO); MAIN FREQUENCY; MEAN FLOWS; MESOSCALE VARIABILITY; MODEL OUTPUTS; NORTH ATLANTIC (NA); NUMERICAL STUDIES; OCEAN DYNAMICS; PRIMITIVE EQUATIONS; STRENGTH (IGC: D5/D6); VENEZUELA;

DYNAMICS;

ALTIMETRY; BAROCLINIC INSTABILITY; CIRCULATION MODELING; DATA SET; EQUATORIAL DYNAMICS; JET FLOW; MESOSCALE EDDY; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; CARIBBEAN SEA; CAYMAN ISLANDS; COLOMBIAN BASIN; GREATER ANTILLES; VENEZUELAN BASIN;

EID: 46849108728     PISSN: 14635003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ocemod.2008.04.002     Document Type: Article

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