Toward energetically consistent ocean models

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 44, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 3160-3184

  Eden, Carsten ^a   Czeschel, Lars ^a   Olbers, Dirk ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Models and modeling; Ocean models; Parameterization; Subgrid scale processes

Indexed keywords

EQUATIONS OF STATE; MIXING; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; PARAMETERIZATION; POTENTIAL ENERGY; TIDAL POWER;

BOUSSINESQ APPROXIMATIONS; EXTERNAL ENERGY; GLOBAL OCEAN MODEL; HYDROGRAPHIC OBSERVATIONS; LARGE-SCALE CIRCULATION; OCEAN MODEL; SPURIOUS ENERGY; SUB-GRID SCALE PROCESS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

BOUSSINESQ EQUATION; CIRCULATION MODELING; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; PARAMETERIZATION; POTENTIAL ENERGY;

EID: 84919665564     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: 15200485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JPO-D-13-0260.1     Document Type: Article

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