Numerical Grid Generation of Oceanic Model for the Andaman Sea

The study of the Andaman Sea can be studied by using the oceanic model; therefore the grid covering the study area should be generated. This research aims to generate grid covering the Andaman Sea, situated between longitudes 90◦E to 101◦E and latitudes 1◦N to 18◦N. A horizontal grid is an orthogonal curvilinear with 87 × 217 grid points. The methods used in this study are cubic spline and bilinear interpolations. The boundary grid points are generated by spline interpolation while the interior grid points have to be specified by bilinear interpolation method. A vertical grid is sigma coordinate with 15 layers of water column.

Authors:

• Nitima Aschariyaphotha
• Pratan Sakkaplangkul
• Anirut Luadsong

Keywords:

• Sigma Coordinate
• Curvilinear Coordinate
• AndamanSea.

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