Investigating the impact of surface wave breaking on modeling the trajectories of drifters in the northern Adriatic Sea during a wind-storm event

Ocean Modelling

Volumn 30, Issue 2-3, 2009, Pages 225-239

  Carniel, Sandro ^a   Warner, John C ^b   Chiggiato, Jacopo ^a,c   Sclavo, Mauro ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c NATO UNDERSEA RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Drifter; Turbulence; Wave breaking

Indexed keywords

ADRIATIC SEA; AVERAGE DISTANCE; BREAKING WAVES; DRIFTER; FORCINGS; LENGTH SCALE; NEAR-SURFACE; NORTHERN ADRIATIC SEA; NUMERICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL PREDICTIONS; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; REGIONAL OCEAN MODELING SYSTEM; RELATIVE ERRORS; RIVER DISCHARGE; STANDARD VALUES; STORM EVENTS; SURFACE FLUX; TEST CASE; TURBULENCE CLOSURES; TURBULENT KINETIC ENERGY; TYPICAL VALUES; UPPER LAYER; VERTICAL MIXING; VERTICAL RESOLUTION; WAVE BREAKING; WAVE-BREAKING PROCESS;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION LANGUAGES; ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY; KINETIC ENERGY; OCEANOGRAPHY; PARAMETERIZATION; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SURFACE WAVES; TURBULENCE; WAVE ENERGY CONVERSION;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DRIFT BEHAVIOR; KINETIC ENERGY; PREDICTION; RIVER DISCHARGE; STORM; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TURBULENCE; VERTICAL MIXING; WAVE BREAKING; WAVE MODELING; WAVE VELOCITY; WIND FORCING;

ADRIATIC SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 68749087341     PISSN: 14635003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ocemod.2009.07.001     Document Type: Article

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