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This chapter introduces the reader to nonhydrostatic finite-difference solvers of the Navier-Stokes equations. For a start, the ocean is treated as as vertical slice. Flow and gradients of variables normal to this plane are assumed to vanish, and the Coriolis force is ignored. Exercises address deep-water (short) surface gravity waves, bottom-attached density-driven currents, internal waves, instabilities of vertical shear flows, lee waves, double-diffusive instability, double-diffusive layering and free convection.
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Kämpf, J. (2010). Basics of Nonhydrostatic Modelling. In: Advanced Ocean Modelling. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-10610-1_3
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