An accurate momentum advection scheme for a z-level coordinate models

Ocean Dynamics

Volumn 60, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1447-1461

  Kleptsova, Olga ^a   Stelling, Guus S ^a   Pietrzak, Julie D ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Advection; Flooding and drying; Momentum conservation; Shallow water equations; Staircase problem; Z layer

Indexed keywords

FLOODING AND DRYING; MOMENTUM CONSERVATION; SHALLOW WATER EQUATIONS; STAIRCASE PROBLEM; Z-LAYER;

EQUATIONS OF MOTION; STAIRS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ADVECTION;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; MOMENTUM; NUMERICAL MODEL; SHALLOW WATER; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

EID: 83655165165     PISSN: 16167341     EISSN: 16167228     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10236-010-0350-y     Document Type: Article

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