Models of the ocean: Which ocean?

Ocean Weather Forecasting: An Integrated View of Oceanography

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 75-108

  Treguier, Anne Marie ^a  

^a Centre Bretagne   (France)

Author keywords

diffusion; numerical models; ocean modelling; Parameterizations; subgrid scale physics; viscosity

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949655344     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-4028-8_3     Document Type: Chapter

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