Software development of the TaIwan Multi-scale Community Ocean Model (TIMCOM)

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 38, Issue , 2012, Pages 214-219

  Young, Chih Chieh ^a   Tseng, Yu Heng ^a,b   Shen, Mao Lin ^a   Liang, Yu Chiao ^a   Chen, Mu Hua ^a   Chien, Chia Hung ^c  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c ARAVision Incorporated   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Community model; EVP method; Fourth order; Grid coupling; TIMCOM

Indexed keywords

BROAD SPECTRUM; COMMUNITY MODEL; DIE-CAST; ERROR VECTOR; EVP METHOD; FINITE VOLUME; FOURTH ORDER; GLOBAL OCEAN; LEAPFROG SCHEME; MULTISCALES; NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN; OCEAN MODEL; OCEANIC FLOW; PRESSURE POISSON EQUATION; PRIMITIVE EQUATIONS; SEA TECHNOLOGY; TIMCOM; USER FRIENDLY INTERFACE;

CLIMATOLOGY; POISSON EQUATION;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CLIMATE VARIATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; GLOBAL OCEAN; POISSON RATIO; SOFTWARE;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84864034329     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2012.05.017     Document Type: Article

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