A Summary of Papers Related to Mesoscale and Large-Scale Ocean Modeling. Volume I.

Abstract

This technical note contains summaries of the important ideas and results from 13 papers related to mesoscale and large scale ocean modeling. Most of the papers represent major contributions to our understanding of the dynamics and energetics of mesoscale eddies and their interaction with ocean currents and with each other. Understanding the nature of flow instabilities associated with the generation and evolution of the eddies is an important aspect of the problem which receives much attention in these papers. Most of the numerical simulations utilized simple two-layer, eddy-resolving, quasi-geostrophic models; a small number used primitive equation models. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1981
Accession Number
ADA103540

Entities

People

  • Harley E. Hurlburt

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Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Boundary Layer
  • Buoyancy
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Computational Science
  • Dynamics
  • Energy Transfer
  • Equations
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Froude Number
  • Gulf Stream
  • Ocean Currents
  • Oceans
  • Ridges
  • Simulations
  • Three Dimensional
  • Topography
  • Two Dimensional

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Academic Conference Management
  • Atmospheric Science / Meteorology, specifically Wind Wave Turbulence.
  • Coastal Oceanography