Application of a vanishing, quasi-sigma, vertical coordinate for simulation of high-speed, deep currents over the Sigsbee Escarpment in the Gulf of Mexico

Ocean Modelling

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 250-265

  Dukhovskoy, Dmitry S ^a   Morey, Steven L ^a   Martin, Paul J ^b   O'Brien, James J ^a   Cooper, Cortis ^c  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c CHEVRON ENERGY TECHNOLOGY COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Deep currents; Gulf of Mexico; Numerical models; Numerical truncation error; Sigsbee Escarpment; Topographic waves; Vertical discretization

Indexed keywords

DEEP CURRENTS; GULF OF MEXICO; NUMERICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL TRUNCATION ERROR; SIGSBEE ESCARPMENT; TOPOGRAPHIC WAVES; VERTICAL DISCRETIZATION;

APPLICATIONS; ENGINEERING GEOLOGY; ERROR ANALYSIS; MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; OCEAN CURRENTS; OCEAN ENGINEERING; PRESSURE GRADIENT;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTINENTAL SLOPE; COORDINATE; ERROR ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEANIC CURRENT; PRESSURE GRADIENT; TOPOGRAPHY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF OF MEXICO; SIGSBEE ESCARPMENT;

EID: 63349106022     PISSN: 14635003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ocemod.2009.02.009     Document Type: Article

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