FVCOM validation experiments: Comparisons with ROMS for three idealized barotropic test problems

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 113, Issue 7, 2008, Pages

  Huang, Haosheng ^a,b   Chen, Changsheng ^a   Cowles, Geoffrey W ^a   Winant, Clinton D ^c   Beardsley, Robert C ^d   Hedstrom, Kate S ^e   Haidvogel, Dale B ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS DARTMOUTH   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^f RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ENGINEERING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HYDRAULIC JUMP; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SPEED; WIND;

ADVECTION; BAROTROPIC MOTION; BENCHMARKING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DAMPING; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; MODEL VALIDATION; ROSSBY WAVE; SUPERCRITICAL FLOW; TRIANGULATION;

EID: 51749118253     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007JC004557     Document Type: Article

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