Simulating the temporal and spatial dynamics of the North Sea using the new model GETM (general estuarine transport model)

Ocean Dynamics

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 266-283

  Stips, Adolf ^a   Bolding, Karsten ^b   Pohlmann, Thomas ^c   Burchard, Hans ^d  

^a JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^b Bolding and Burchard Hydrodyn GbR ^*  (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Numerical modelling; Sea surface temperature; Shelf seas

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ESTUARIES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SEAWATER; SURFACE PHENOMENA; THERMAL STRATIFICATION; TURBULENCE;

NUMERICAL MODELLING; POINT-LIKE MEASUREMENTS; SEA-SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SHELF SEAS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

EID: 4944228702     PISSN: 16167341     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10236-003-0077-0     Document Type: Conference Paper

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