Simulations of nearshore particle-pair dispersion in southern california

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 43, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1862-1879

  Romero, Leonel ^a   Uchiyama, Yusuke ^b   Carter, Ohlmann J ^a   Mcwilliams, James C ^c   Siegel, David A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEGREE OF ANISOTROPY; HIGH-RESOLUTION NUMERICAL SIMULATION; HORIZONTAL RESOLUTION; LAGRANGIAN EXPERIMENT; MIXING PARAMETERIZATIONS; PARTICLE TRAJECTORIES; SEPARATION DISTANCES; SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA BIGHT;

ANISOTROPY; DIFFUSION; KINETIC ENERGY; KINETICS; POLLUTION; VORTICITY;

COASTAL ENGINEERING;

BATHYMETRY; COASTAL SEDIMENT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSIVITY; KINETIC ENERGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; VORTICITY;

PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA BIGHT;

EID: 84884915492     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: 15200485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JPO-D-13-011.1     Document Type: Article

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