Sensitivity analysis of three-dimensional salinity simulations in North San Francisco Bay using the unstructured-grid SUNTANS model

Ocean Modelling

Volumn 39, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 332-350

  Chua, Vivien P ^a   Fringer, Oliver B ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Grid resolution; Numerical diffusion; Scalar advection scheme; Turbulence model; Unstructured grid

Indexed keywords

BAROCLINIC CIRCULATION; CONVERGENCE RATES; FIRST-ORDER; FLOWTHROUGH; GRID REFINEMENT; GRID RESOLUTION; NUMERICAL DIFFUSION; PACIFIC OCEAN; RECTANGULAR BOX; SALINITY GRADIENTS; SALINITY SIMULATIONS; SAN FRANCISCO BAY; SCALAR ADVECTION; SCALAR TRANSPORT; SECOND ORDERS; SENSITIVITY STUDIES; TURBULENT MIXING; TVD SCHEME; UNSTRUCTURED GRID; UPWINDING;

ADVECTION; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TURBULENCE MODELS;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

BAROCLINIC MOTION; HYDRODYNAMICS; INTERNAL TIDE; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEAN TIDE; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; OCEANIC CURRENT; SALINITY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STRATIFICATION; TURBULENCE; TURBULENT MIXING;

CALIFORNIA; PACIFIC OCEAN; SAN FRANCISCO BAY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 80051472670     PISSN: 14635003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ocemod.2011.05.007     Document Type: Article

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