A Review of Ocean Models.

Abstract

This report is a review of current trends and approaches to modeling various ocean phenomena. We begin with a brief discussion of large scale circulation models. This leads to a summary of models of large (i.e., tens of kilometers) fronts and attempts to model them. The next section is a detailed discussion of upper ocean dynamics and the models used for simulations. The final section discusses Garrett-Munk type internal wave models and models of the effects of finestructure. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 23, 1981
Accession Number
ADA098189

Entities

People

  • Gerald T. Hebenstreit
  • Walter J. Grabowski

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Atmospheric Motion
  • Boundary Layer
  • Climate Change
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Computational Science
  • Databases
  • Energy Transfer
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Froude Number
  • Information Science
  • Ocean Currents
  • Partial Differential Equations
  • Physics Laboratories
  • Sea Water
  • Stratified Fluids
  • Topography
  • Turbulent Mixing

Readers

  • Atmospheric Science / Meteorology, specifically Wind Wave Turbulence.
  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Oceanography.