Two-way nesting in split-explicit ocean models: Algorithms, implementation and validation

Ocean Modelling

Volumn 49-50, Issue , 2012, Pages 1-21

  Debreu, Laurent ^a   Marchesiello, Patrick ^b   Penven, Pierrick ^c,d   Cambon, Gildas ^b  

^a UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c Centre Bretagne   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Boundary conditions; Coastal upwelling; Finite difference method; Modeling; Two way nesting

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; MODELS;

CALIFORNIA CURRENT SYSTEMS; COASTAL UPWELLING; COMPLEX CONFIGURATION; OPERATIONAL CAPABILITIES; REALISTIC APPLICATIONS; REALISTIC SIMULATION; SHARED AND DISTRIBUTED MEMORY ARCHITECTURES; TWO-WAY NESTING;

MEMORY ARCHITECTURE;

ALGORITHM; BOUNDARY CONDITION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; IMAGE RESOLUTION; SOFTWARE; UPWELLING; VORTEX FLOW;

EID: 84859721659     PISSN: 14635003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ocemod.2012.03.003     Document Type: Article

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