Numerical studies of wind forced internal waves with a nonhydrostatic model

Ocean Dynamics

Volumn 59, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1025-1041

  Bergh, Jon ^a   Berntsen, Jarle ^b  

^a UNIFOB AS   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Nonhydrostatic pressure; Nonlinear internal waves; Numerical ocean model; Wind forcing

Indexed keywords

A-TRAIN; DEPRESSION WAVES; GENERATION PROCESS; GRID SIZE; HIGH RESOLUTION; HORIZONTAL GRID; HYDROSTATIC GRADIENTS; HYDROSTATIC MODEL; INTERNAL WAVES; KORTEWEG-DE VRIES THEORY; NON-HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; NONHYDROSTATIC MODEL; NONLINEAR INTERNAL WAVE; NUMERICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL STUDIES; OCEAN MODEL; ORDER OF MAGNITUDE; SOLITON WAVES; STRATIFIED OCEAN; SYSTEMATIC STUDY; TIME-SCALES; WIND FORCING;

CRACK PROPAGATION; HYDRAULICS; HYDRODYNAMICS; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; MESH GENERATION; OCEANOGRAPHY; PRESSURE EFFECTS; PRESSURE GRADIENT; SOLITONS; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; INTERNAL WAVE; NONLINEAR WAVE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRESSURE GRADIENT; WIND FORCING; WIND WAVE;

EID: 71149103227     PISSN: 16167341     EISSN: 16167228     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10236-009-0226-1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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