International Scholarly Research Notices / 2013 / Article / Tab 1 / Review Article
Water Circulation, Sediment Transport, and Pollutant Dynamics in Southern Iberia Waters: A Review on Numerical Modelling Studies Table 1 Summary of hydrodynamic model characteristics.
2D model 2-layer model 3D model Domain GoC, AS AS GoC Objective tides Mean circulation Mean circulation Spatial resolution 2 minutesa 2 minutesa 2 minutesa Features Barotropic 2 water layers with constant density Hydrostatic, Boussinesq Depth-averaged Baroclinic
,
constituents Equations for
and
Forcing Tidal analysis 1-equation turbulence model Tide amplitude and phase Water exchanges through Water exchanges through along open boundaries Gibraltar Strait Gibraltar Strait and
,
from climatology Forcing data source [47 , 48 ]
[20 ] [20 ] [28 ] WOA05 climatologyb Additional boundary condition where required Radiationc Radiationc Radiationc
a In both longitude and latitude.
b World Ocean Atlas 2005, National Ocean and Atmosphere Administration, available online. Seasonal values have been used for climatology and wind stress.
c See [49 ].