Non-hydrostatic pressure in σ-coordinate ocean models

Ocean Modelling

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 240-249

  Keilegavlen, Eirik ^a   Berntsen, Jarle ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Coordinates; Internal waves; Non hydrostatic pressure

Indexed keywords

COARSE GRIDS; COMPUTATIONAL BURDENS; COORDINATE MODELS; DENSITY FIELDS; GRADIENT ERRORS; GRID SIZES; HYDROSTATIC APPROXIMATIONS; HYDROSTATIC OCEANS; INTERNAL PRESSURES; INTERNAL WAVES; MODEL CHOICES; MODEL RESULTS; NON-HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; OCEAN MODELLING; OCEAN MODELS; SUB-GRID SCALE; TEST CASE; VELOCITY FIELDS;

COMPUTER SCIENCE; FLOW OF WATER; HYDRAULICS; HYDRODYNAMICS; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; OCEAN ENGINEERING; OCEANOGRAPHY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

PRESSURE GRADIENT;

ERROR ANALYSIS; FJORD; INTERNAL WAVE; NUMERICAL MODEL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STRATIFIED FLOW; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WAVE BREAKING; WAVE MODELING; WAVE PROPAGATION; WAVE VELOCITY;

EID: 63349107215     PISSN: 14635003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ocemod.2009.02.006     Document Type: Article

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