A baroclinic quasigeostrophic open ocean model

DOI10.1016/0021-9991(83)90041-4zbMath0533.76044MaRDI QIDQ789954

Robert N. Miller, Allan R. Robinson, Dale B. Haidvogel

Publication date: 1983

Published in: Journal of Computational Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0021-9991(83)90041-4

zbMATH Keywords

collocation method; finite difference method; accuracy and efficiency; baroclinic quasigeostrophic open ocean model; constant stratification; depth dependence of the flow; mid-oceanic mesoscale eddy flow regimes; quasiturbulent; Sample Rossby wave calculations with and without advection; two levels of nonlinearity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

86A05: Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography

76E30: Nonlinear effects in hydrodynamic stability

76V05: Reaction effects in flows

76M99: Basic methods in fluid mechanics

76E20: Stability and instability of geophysical and astrophysical flows

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