On the computational noise of finite-difference schemes used in ocean models

Mary L. Batteen; Y.-J. Han

doi:10.3402/tellusa.v33i4.10725

On the computational noise of finite-difference schemes used in ocean models

Tellus

Volume 33 (1981): Issue 4

By: Mary L. Batteen and Y.-J. Han

Open Access

|Jan 1981

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