Quantitative analysis of numerically induced mixing in a coastal model application

Ocean Dynamics

Volumn 59, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 671-687

  Rennau, Hannes ^a   Burchard, Hans ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR BALTIC SEA RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Advection schemes; Numerical mixing; Ocean model; Physical mixing; Variance decay

Indexed keywords

BALTIC SEA; BOTTOM WATER; COASTAL MODELS; DECAY RATE; DENSITY GRADIENTS; DIAGNOSTIC METHODS; DISCRETISATION ERRORS; HIGH RESOLUTION; HIGH VELOCITY; HORIZONTAL DISTRIBUTION; HORIZONTAL GRADIENTS; KATTEGAT; NUMERICAL MIXING; OCEAN MODEL; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PHYSICAL MIXING; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DIMENSION; STEEP SLOPE; TIME STEP; TURBULENT MIXING; VARIANCE DECAY; VERTICAL ADVECTION; VERTICAL COORDINATES; VERTICAL GRADIENTS;

ADVECTION; DECAY (ORGANIC); ERRORS; MIXING; OCEANOGRAPHY;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

ADVECTION; EPISODIC EVENT; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TURBULENT MIXING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA;

EID: 70350567861     PISSN: 16167341     EISSN: 16167228     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10236-009-0201-x     Document Type: Article

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