Effect of Internal Radius and Shorter Horizontal Scale Bathymetric Variations on Coastal Dynamics.

摘要

Numerical models of coastal circulation need to be rigorously tested against observations if they are to be used for prediction. As higher spatial detail is desired in a flow prediction, finer resolution grids are used with higher resolution bottom topography. It is important to know how these models represent processes at small spatial scale. It is important to know how fine the grid must be to represent circulation over variable bottom topography. It is important to know what topographic features need to be resolved in model calculations and which can be smoothed away. I am addressing these questions of model resolution and model testing while working on the dynamics of coastal flow in places where observations exist.