Grid degradation of submesoscale resolving ocean models: Benefits for offline passive tracer transport

Ocean Modelling

Volumn 48, Issue , 2012, Pages 1-9

  Levy M ^a   Resplandy, L ^a,b   Klein, P ^c   Capet, X ^c   Iovino, D ^a   Ethe C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

^b NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^c Centre Bretagne   (France)

Author keywords

Biogeochemical models; Effective resolution; Grid degradation; Offline transport; Passive tracers; Submesoscale models; Vertical velocity

Indexed keywords

3D-VELOCITY; BIOGEOCHEMICAL MODELS; COMPUTING TIME; DATA STORAGE; DYNAMICAL MODEL; DYNAMICAL SOLUTIONS; GRID RESOLUTION; HORIZONTAL RESOLUTION; MESOSCALE; MESOSCALE EDDY; NUMERICAL COSTS; NUMERICAL SOLUTION; OCEAN DYNAMICS; OCEAN MODEL; OFFLINE; OFFLINE TRANSPORT; PASSIVE TRACER ADVECTION; PASSIVE TRACERS; TRACER TRANSPORT; VERTICAL VELOCITY;

ADVECTION; DYNAMICS; VELOCITY;

DEGRADATION;

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; MESOSCALE EDDY; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; VORTICITY;

EID: 84859493239     PISSN: 14635003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ocemod.2012.02.004     Document Type: Article

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