A nonhydrostatic version of FVCOM: 1. Validation experiments

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 115, Issue 11, 2010, Pages

  Lai, Zhigang ^a   Chen, Changsheng ^a,b   Cowles, Geoffrey W ^a   Beardsley, Robert C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS DARTMOUTH   (United States)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SOLITONS;

ANALYTICAL SOLUTIONS; COASTAL OCEAN MODEL; FINITE VOLUME; FREE SURFACES; HOMOGENEOUS CONDITIONS; INTERNAL SOLITARY WAVES; LOCK-EXCHANGE FLOWS; MODEL RESULTS; NONHYDROSTATIC EFFECT; NUMERICAL DAMPING; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; SECOND-ORDER ACCURACY; SEMI-IMPLICIT SCHEME; SOLITARY WAVE; STEP METHOD; TWO LAYERS; UNSTRUCTURED GRID; VOLUME CONSERVATION;

EXPERIMENTS;

COASTAL ZONE; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; MODEL TEST; OCEANOGRAPHY; SOLITARY WAVE;

EID: 78649281456     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009JC005525     Document Type: Article

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