Variations of vertical velocity in the deep oceans simulated by a 1/10° OGCM

Ocean Dynamics

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 759-770

  Von Storch, Jin Song ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Energetics of the deep oceans; High resolution ocean model; Internal waves; Vertical velocity variations

Indexed keywords

ALIASING ERROR; DEEP OCEAN; EARTH SIMULATORS; ENERGY FLUXES; GRID SIZE; HIGH-RESOLUTION OCEAN MODEL; INERTIAL FREQUENCY; INTEGRATION POINTS; INTERNAL WAVES; MAXIMUM VALUES; NEAR-INERTIAL INTERNAL WAVES; NEAR-INERTIAL WAVES; OCEAN GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; QUASI-STEADY; SCALE ANALYSIS; SOUTHERN OCEAN; STANDARD DEVIATION; TIDAL CURRENTS; TIDAL FLOW; VERTICAL VELOCITY; WATER COLUMNS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; TOPOGRAPHY; VELOCITY;

OCEAN CURRENTS;

DEEP SEA; ENERGY FLUX; ERROR ANALYSIS; INTERNAL WAVE; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; TOPOGRAPHIC MAPPING; WATER COLUMN; WAVE GENERATION; WAVE PROPAGATION;

SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 77954814599     PISSN: 16167341     EISSN: 16167228     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10236-010-0303-5     Document Type: Article

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