Skip to main content
Have a personal or library account? Click to login
A numerical model comparison of baroclinic instability in the presence of topography Cover

A numerical model comparison of baroclinic instability in the presence of topography

Open Access
|Jan 2000

References

  1. Arakawa , A. and Lamb , V. R . 1977 . Computational design of the basic dynamical processes of the UCLA general circulation model . In: Methods in computational physics 17 , Academic Press , pp. 174 264 .
  2. Asselin , R . 1972 . Frequency filter for time integrations. Mon. Wea. Re v . 100 , 487 490 .
  3. Bleck , R. and Boudra , D. B . 1981 . Initial testing of a numerical ocean circulation model using a hybrid (quasi-isopycnic) vertical coordinate . J. Phys. Oceanogr . 11 , 755 770 .
  4. Bleck , R. and Boudra , D. B . 1986 . Wind-driven spin-up in eddy-resolving ocean models formulated in iso-pycnic and isobaric coordinates . J. Geophys. Res . 91 , 7611 7621 .
  5. Bleck , R. and Smith , L . 1990 . A wind-driven isopycnic coordinate model of the north and equatorial Atlantic Ocean. Part I: Model development and supporting experiments . J. Geophys. Res . 95 , 3272 3285 .
  6. Bryan , K . 1969 . A numerical method for the study of the circulation of the world ocean . J. Comp. Phys . 4 , 347 376 .
  7. Chao , S . 1990 . Instabilities of fronts over a continental margin . J. Geophys. Res . 95 , 3199 3211 .
  8. Chassignet , E. P . 1992 . Rings in numerical models of ocean general circulation-a statistical study . J. Geo-phys. Res . 97 , 9479 9492 .
  9. Cox , M. D . 1984 . A primitive equation, 3-dimensional model of the ocean. GFDL Ocean Group Tech . Report, No . 1 , 250 pp .
  10. Cox , M. D. and Bryan , K . 1984 . A numerical model of the ventilated thermocline . J. Phys. Oceanogr . 14 , 674 687 .
  11. Derome , J. and Dolph , C. L . 1970 . Three-dimensional non-geostrophic disturbances in a baroclinic zonal flow . Geophys. Fluid Dyn . 1 , 91 122 .
  12. Drijfhout , S. S . 1992 . Ring genesis and the related heat transport. Part II: A model comparison . J. Phys. Oceanogr . 22 , 268 285 .
  13. Fofonoff , N. P . 1962 . Physical properties of sea water. The Sea, Vol. 1 . New York, Interscience , 864 pp.
  14. Griffiths , C . 1992 . Modelling the Iceland Faerce front. PhD thesis, Univ. of Exeter, Exeter, England. 191 pp.
  15. Hecht , M. W. , Holland , W. R. and Rasch , P. J . 1995 . Upwind-weighted advection schemes for ocean tracer transport-an evaluation in a passive tracer context . J. Geophys. Res . 100 , 20 , 763-20 , 778 .
  16. Hecht , M. W. , Bryan , F. O. and Holland , W. R . 1998 . A consideration of tracer advection schemes in a primi-tive equation ocean model . J. Geophys. Res . 103 , 3301 3321 .
  17. Hoskins , B. and Bretherton , F. P . 1972 . Atmospheric frontogenesis models: mathematical formulation and solution. J. Atmos. Sc i . 29 , 11 37 .
  18. Huppert , H. E. and Bryan , K . 1976 . Topographically generated eddies . Deep Sea Res . 23 , 655 679 .
  19. Ikeda , M . 1981 . Meanders and detached eddies of a strong eastward-flowing jet using a two-layer quasi-geostrophic model . J. Phys. Oceanogr . 11 , 526 540 .
  20. Ikeda , M. and Wood , R. A . 1993 . Mesoscale stability of an ocean current in the Bryan-Cox model . J. Geophys. Res . 98 , 12 , 527-12 , 536 .
  21. Killworth , P. D . 1987 . Topographic instabilities in level model OGCMs . Ocean Modelling 75 .
  22. Killworth , P. D. , Stainforth , D. , Webb , D. J. and Paterson , S. M . 1991 . The development of a free-surface Bryan-Cox-Semtner ocean model . J. Phys. Oceanogr . 21 , 1333 1348 .
  23. Lazier , J. R. N. and Wright , D. G . 1993 . Annual velocity variations in the Labrador Sea . J. Phys. Oceanogr . 23 , 659 678 .
  24. LeBlond , P.H . 1982 . Satellite observations of Labrador Current undulations . Atmosphere-Ocean 20 , 129 142 .
  25. Lorenz , E . 1967 . The nature and theory of the general circulation of the atmosphere . World Meteorol. Organ-ization , Geneva .
  26. Matsuno , T . 1966 . Numerical integrations of the primi-tive equations by a simulated backward difference method . J. Meteor. Soc. Japan 44 , 76 84 .
  27. Maskell , S. J. , Heathershaw , A. D. and Stretch , C. E . 1992 . Topographic and eddy effects in a primitive equation model of the Iceland-Faeroes front . J. Marine Systems 3 , 343 380 .
  28. New , A. L. , Bleck , R. , Jia , Y. , Marsh , R. , Huddleston , M. and Barnard , S . 1995 . An isopycnic model study of the north Atlantic. Part I: Model experiment . J. Phys. Oceanogr . 25 , 2667 2699 .
  29. Oberhuber , J . 1993 . Simulation of the Atlantic circulation with a coupled sea ice-mixed layer-isopycnal general circulation model. Part I: Model description . J. Phys. Oceanogr . 23 , 808 829 .
  30. Orlanski , I. and Cox , M. D . 1973 . Baroclinic instability in ocean currents . Geophys. Fluid Dyn . 3 , 297 332 .
  31. Pedlosky , J . 1979 . Geophysical fluid dynamics . Springer Verlag, 624 pp.
  32. Roberts , M. J. , Marsh , R. , New , A. L. and Wood , R. A . 1996 . An intercomparison of a Bryan-Cox-type ocean model and an isopycnic ocean model. Part I: The subpolar gyre and high-latitude processes . J. Phys. Oceanogr . 26 , 1495 1527 .
  33. Rood , R. B . 1987 . Numerical advection algorithms and their role in atmospheric transport and chemistry models . Reviews of Geophys . 25 , 71 100 .
  34. Smith , L. T . 1992 . Numerical simulations of stratified rotating flow over finite amplitude topography . J. Phys. Oceanogr . 22 , 686 696 .
  35. Wajsowicz , R. C . 1986 . Free planetary waves in finite-difference numerical models . J. Phys. Oceanogr . 16 , 773 789 .
  36. Wang , W . 1997. The gulf stream near 73°W: views from observations and a primitive equation model. Deep Sea Research , Part I. Oceanographic Research Papers , 44 , 1147-116 6 .
  37. Wilkin , J. L. , Mansbridge , J. V. and Godfrey , J. S . 1995 . Pacific ocean heat transport at 24°N in a high-reso-lution global model . J. Phys. Oceanogr . 25 , 2204 2214 .
  38. Wood , R. A. and Ikeda , M . 1994 . Comparison of meso-scale meanders and eddies simulated by quasigeostrophic and primitive equation models: a case study. J. Geophys. Res . 99 , 22 , 645 - 22 , 663.
  39. Zalesak , S. T . 1979 . Fully multidimensional fluxscale corrected transport algorithms for fluids . J. Comp. Phys . 31 , 335-362 .
Language: English
Page range: 42 - 65
Submitted on: Mar 2, 1998
Accepted on: Jun 4, 1999
Published on: Jan 1, 2000
Published by: Stockholm University Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

© 2000 Catherine Griffiths, Motoyoshi Ikeda, Peter C. Smith, published by Stockholm University Press
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.