The Development of BBL in the General Vertical
Coordinate System
Y. Tony Song
JPL, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California
A bottom boundary layer (BBL) scheme is incorporated into a general
vertical coordinate sytem. A suite of process-oriented test problems
will be used to evaluate the accuracy and efficiency of the new scheme.
The objective of the study is to develop a general vertical coordinate
capability with hybrid Z-, Isopycnal, and Sigma-coordiante features
to better represent the subgridscale mixing and BBL processes.
The developed techniques will be first applied to the ONR-initiated
Expert System/TOMS for future ocean nowcast/forecast applications.