| Coastal shelf models suffer from the difficulty of specifying both the initial field and the external circulation at the open boundary. Only basin scale models can have the right space-time variability to routinely provide such information. Do facto, such models have however a coarser resolution than the coastal model and the downscaling of the circulation to the high resolution grid is biased. Indeed the models are not necessarily based on the same physics and the interactions of the general circulation with the topography, in particular over the shelf break region, arc generally not correctly represented on the large-scale grid. Studying the response of the Northern Current to the atmospheric forcing in the region of Marseille (France) and its... |
