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Non-linear three-dimensional modelling of mesoscale circulation in seas and lakes
Nihoul, J.C.J.; Runfola, Y.; Roisin, B. (1979). Non-linear three-dimensional modelling of mesoscale circulation in seas and lakes, in: Nihoul, J.C.J. (Ed.) Marine forecasting: predictability and modelling in ocean hydrodynamics: proceedings of the 10th International Liège Colloquium on Ocean Hydrodynamics. Elsevier Oceanography Series, 25: pp. 235-259. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0422-9894(08)71133-4
In: Nihoul, J.C.J. (Ed.) (1979). Marine forecasting: Predictability and modelling in ocean hydrodynamics - Proceedings of the 10th International Liège colloquium on ocean hydrodynamics. Elsevier Oceanography Series, 25. Elsevier Scientific Publishing Company: Amsterdam/London/New York. ISBN 0-444-41797-4; e-ISBN 978-0-444-41797-8. XIV, 493 pp., more
In: Elsevier Oceanography Series. Elsevier: Oxford; New york; Amsterdam. ISSN 0422-9894, more

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Document type: Conference paper

Keywords
    Marine/Coastal; Fresh water

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  • Nihoul, J.C.J., more
  • Runfola, Y.
  • Roisin, B.

Abstract
    Two-dimensional and one-dimensional models of mesoscale hydrodynamics are discussed with particular emphasis on the possibility of combining them to obtain a three-dimensional description of the currents in seas and lakes.A particular attention is paid to the variable eddy viscosity multimode model developed by Nihoul (1977) and a numerical generalization of this model is presented in which, by successive iterations at each time step, the non-linear advection terms are taken into account in the one-dimensional Ekman model while the parameterization of the bottom stress is, if necessary, revised in the depth-averaged two-dimensional model according to the vertical structure.An example of application to the North Sea is given in illustration.

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