Spurious multiple equilibria introduced by convective adjustment

Ocean Modelling

Volumn 38, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 126-137

  den Toom, Matthijs ^a   Dijkstra, Henk A ^a   Wubs, Fred W ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bifurcation analysis; Convection; Parameterisation

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL EVALUATION; ANALYTICAL SOLUTIONS; BIFURCATION ANALYSIS; CONVECTION; DISCRETISATION; EIGENVALUE PROBLEM; IMPLICIT MODEL; MULTIPLE EQUILIBRIUM; MULTIPLE STEADY STATE; MULTISTABILITY; NONLINEAR CHARACTERS; NUMERICAL CONTINUATION METHODS; NUMERICAL RESULTS; OCEAN CLIMATE MODELS; OCEANIC FLOW; PARAMETER SPACES; PARAMETERISATION; PRIMITIVE EQUATIONS; REORGANISATION; SADDLE NODE BIFURCATION; STEADY SOLUTION; STEADY STATE; SUBGRID SCALE; VERTICAL DIFFUSION; WATER COLUMNS;

CLIMATE MODELS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; NONLINEAR FEEDBACK; NUMERICAL METHODS;

BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS);

BIFURCATION; CLIMATE MODELING; FLOW MODELING; FLUID DYNAMICS; NUMERICAL METHOD; OCEANIC CONVECTION; PARAMETERIZATION;

EID: 79954420007     PISSN: 14635003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ocemod.2011.02.009     Document Type: Article

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