Improvement of MOM4 by including surface wave-induced vertical mixing

Ocean Modelling

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 42-51

  Shu, Qi ^a   Qiao, Fangli ^a   Song, Zhenya ^a   Xia, Changshui ^a   Yang, Yongzeng ^a  

^a FIRST INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (China)

Author keywords

KPP vertical mixing scheme; MOM4; Surface wave induced mixing

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSIVE HEAT; MIXED LAYER DEPTHS; MODULAR OCEAN MODEL; MOM4; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; PARAMETERIZED; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; TEMPERATURE ERROR; VERTICAL MIXING;

HEAT FLUX; MIXING; SURFACE WAVES; UPPER ATMOSPHERE; WAVES;

WATER WAVES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; HEAT FLUX; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; SUMMER; SURFACE WAVE; UPPER OCEAN; VERTICAL MIXING;

EID: 80052082461     PISSN: 14635003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ocemod.2011.07.005     Document Type: Article

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