QUAGMIRE v1.3: A quasi-geostrophic model for investigating rotating fluids experiments

Geoscientific Model Development

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 13-32

  Williams, P D ^a   Haine, T W N ^b   Read, P L ^c   Lewis, S R ^d   Yamazaki, Y H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICS; CYLINDERS (SHAPES); EQUATIONS OF MOTION; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PERSONAL COMPUTERS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; VORTICITY;

CYLINDRICAL GEOMETRY; HIGH RESOLUTION SIMULATIONS; INTERNAL INTERFACES; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; NONLINEAR PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; QUASI-GEOSTROPHIC MODEL; TIME-STEPPING SCHEMES;

NONLINEAR EQUATIONS;

EKMAN LAYER; EKMAN PUMPING; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; LABORATORY METHOD; MODEL; NUMERICAL MODEL; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; SIMULATION;

EID: 84977774070     PISSN: 1991959X     EISSN: 19919603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/gmd-2-13-2009     Document Type: Article

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