Parameterizing subgrid-scale eddy effects using energetically consistent backscatter

Ocean Modelling

Volumn 80, Issue , 2014, Pages 36-48

  Jansen, Malte F ^a   Held, Isaac M ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Backscatter; Eddy parameterization; Eddy permitting; Energy; Enstrophy; Mesoscale

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; ENERGY DISSIPATION; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; VISCOSITY;

EDDY PERMITTING; EDDY-PERMITTING RESOLUTION; ENERGY; ENSTROPHY; ENSTROPHY DISSIPATION; MESOSCALE; QUASI-GEOSTROPHIC MODEL; STOCHASTIC EXCITATIONS;

PARAMETERIZATION;

BACKSCATTER; EDDY; ENERGY DISSIPATION; MESOSCALE EDDY; MODELING; PARAMETERIZATION; QUASI-GEOSTROPHIC FLOW;

EID: 84904289258     PISSN: 14635003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ocemod.2014.06.002     Document Type: Article

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