Reconciling estimates of the free surface height in Lagrangian vertical coordinate ocean models with mode-split time stepping

Ocean Modelling

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 15-26

  Hallberg, Robert ^a,b   Adcroft, Alistair ^a,b  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Free surface; Lagrangian vertical coordinate; Ocean model; Split time stepping

Indexed keywords

CONTINUITY EQUATIONS; DISCRETIZATIONS; EXTERNAL SOLUTIONS; FREE SURFACE; GRAVITY MODES; INTERIOR LAYERS; LAGRANGIAN VERTICAL COORDINATE; LINEAR PROBLEMS; MODE SPLITTING; OCEAN MODEL; SPLIT TIME STEPPING; TIME INVARIANTS;

GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; OCEAN ENGINEERING; OCEANOGRAPHY;

SURFACES;

ALGORITHM; ESTIMATION METHOD; FREE SURFACE FLOW; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; NONLINEARITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; SIGNIFICANT WAVE HEIGHT; WAVE EQUATION; WAVE VELOCITY;

EID: 64849116932     PISSN: 14635003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ocemod.2009.02.008     Document Type: Article

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