Development of barotropic models for the GIN Sea

Barotropic ocean models are developed for deep oceans, with arbitrary topography and basin geometry, on a sphere. A special adaptation is made for the Greenland-Iceland-Norwegian (GIN) Seas with closed lateral boundaries. The models are tested for conservation, accuracy and physical soundness at suc...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Piacsek, Steve, Van Meurs, P.
Format: Other/Unknown Material
Language:English
Published: NATO. SACLANTCEN 1991
Subjects:
GIN Sea
Oceanography - Mathematical models
Remote sensing
Acoustic propagation
Currents
Greenland
Iceland
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12489/200
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Summary:Barotropic ocean models are developed for deep oceans, with arbitrary topography and basin geometry, on a sphere. A special adaptation is made for the Greenland-Iceland-Norwegian (GIN) Seas with closed lateral boundaries. The models are tested for conservation, accuracy and physical soundness at successive stages of their development. Various results obtained with an explicit version of the model with closed boundaries are presented. These include runs with a flat bottom and GIN topography, using monthly averaged wind forcing.

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