Resolving frontal structures: On the payoff using a less diffusive but computationally more expensive advection scheme

Ocean Dynamics

Volumn 62, Issue 10-12, 2012, Pages 1457-1470

  Barthel, Knut ^a   Daewel, Ute ^a   Pushpadas, Dhanya ^a   Schrum, Corinna ^a   Arthun, Marius ^a,c   Wehde, Henning ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b INSTITUTE OF MARINE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^c BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Advection schemes; Ecosystem model; Fronts; Shelf sea; TVD

Indexed keywords

BALTIC SEA; BARENTS SEA; CHARACTERISTIC TIME; COUPLED PHYSICAL-BIOLOGICAL MODELS; CPU TIME; ECOSYSTEM MODEL; FRONTS; HORIZONTAL ADVECTION; LARVAL SURVIVAL; NORTH SEA; NUMBER OF STATE; SEASONAL CYCLE; SECOND ORDERS; SHAPE-PRESERVING; SHELF SEA; STATE VARIABLES; TOTAL VARIATION DIMINISHING; TROPHIC LEVEL; TVD; TVD SCHEME; UP-WIND SCHEME;

ADVECTION; ECOSYSTEMS; PROGRAM PROCESSORS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

ADVECTION; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DIFFUSION; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; FRONTAL FEATURE; GADOID; HYDRODYNAMICS; LARVA; OCEANIC FRONT; SALINITY; SEASONAL VARIATION; SURVIVAL; TROPHIC LEVEL;

ARCTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA; BARENTS SEA; NORTH SEA;

EID: 84870937255     PISSN: 16167341     EISSN: 16167228     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10236-012-0578-9     Document Type: Article

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