A Primer on Global Internal Tide and Internal Gravity Wave Continuum Modeling in HYCOM and MITgcm

Brian K. Arbic1,2, Matthew H. Alford3, Joseph K. Ansong1,4, Maarten C. Buijsman5, Robert B. Ciotti6, J. Thomas Farrar7, Robert W. Hallberg8, Christopher E. Henze6, Christopher N. Hill9, Conrad A. Luecke1,3, Dimitris Menemenlis10, E. Joseph Metzger11, Malte Müller12, Arin D. Nelson1, Bron C. Nelson6, Hans E. Ngodock11, Rui M. Ponte13, James G. Richman14, Anna C. Savage1,3, Robert B. Scott15, Jay F. Shriver11, Harper L. Simmons16, Innocent Souopgui5, Patrick G. Timko1,+, Alan J. Wallcraft14, Luis Zamudio14, and Zhongxiang Zhao17

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