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Re: eddy resolving ocean modeling

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From: dan graves
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 04:26
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In article <1992Mar30.191520.14628@lamont.ldgo.columbia.edu>, sasha@ldgo.columbia.edu (alexander krupitsky) writes:
|> It is known that eddy-resolving quasi-geostrophic models do
|> better job in reproducing Gulf Stream transport than primitive
|> equations models. Could anyone explain why?
|> 
|> 			Alexander

I am not sure exactly what you mean.  Quasi-geostrophic refers
to how the coriolus term in the navier stokes eqn is treated.
Primitive equation refers to the fact that you are dealing
with velocities and pressures and not stream functions and 
vorticities.  These are two different issues.  

dan
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Subject: Re: eddy resolving ocean modeling
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