Lateral Mixing in the Eddying Regime and a New Broad-Ranging Formulation

Ocean Modeling in an Eddying Regime

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 339-352

  Hecht, Matthew W ^a   Petersen, Mark R ^a   Wingate, Beth A ^a   Hunke, Elizabeth ^b   Maltrud, Mathew ^b  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ocean circulation Mathematical models; Oceanography Mathematical models

Indexed keywords

OCEANOGRAPHY; SPECIFICATIONS; TURBULENCE; VISCOSITY;

LATERAL MIXING; MODEL RESOLUTION; NAVIER STOKES; OCEAN CIRCULATION; PRIMITIVE EQUATIONS; ROSSBY RADIUS OF DEFORMATION; TURBULENCE PARAMETERIZATION; TURBULENCE SCHEME;

NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS;

EID: 84952643049     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1029/177GM20     Document Type: Chapter

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