Improving simulations of the upper ocean by inclusion of surface waves in the Mellor-Yamada turbulence scheme

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 116, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Huang, Chuan Jiang ^a   Qiao, Fangli ^a   Song, Zhenya ^a   Ezer, Tal ^b  

^a FIRST INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (China)

^b OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY; KINETIC ENERGY; MIXING; OCEANOGRAPHY; SURFACE WAVES; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TURBULENCE; WATER WAVES;

MODEL RESULTS; NEAR-SURFACE LAYERS; OCEAN CIRCULATION MODELS; SUBSURFACE TEMPERATURE; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; THERMAL STRUCTURE; TURBULENCE CLOSURES; TURBULENCE KINETIC ENERGY; TURBULENCE SCHEME; UPPER OCEAN; VERTICAL MIXING; WAVE-TURBULENCE INTERACTION; WAVEBREAKING;

WAVE ENERGY CONVERSION;

KINETIC ENERGY; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEASONALITY; SURFACE WAVE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TURBULENCE; UPPER OCEAN; VERTICAL MIXING; WAVE BREAKING; WAVE MODELING;

EID: 78751544401     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JC006320     Document Type: Article

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