References to papers using the gereralized coordinate POM

MODEL DEVELOPMENT AND TESTING

Mellor, G. L., S. Hakkinen, T. Ezer and R. Patchen (2002), A generalization of a sigma 
coordinate ocean model and an intercomparison of model vertical grids, In: Ocean Forecasting: 
Conceptual Basis and Applications, N. Pinardi and J. D. Woods (Eds.), Springer, 55-72, 
doi:10.1007/978-3-662-22648-3_4.

Ezer, T. and G. L. Mellor (2004), A generalized coordinate ocean model and a comparison 
of the bottom boundary layer dynamics in terrain-following and in z-level grids, 
Ocean Modelling, 6/3-4, 379-403, doi:10.1016/S1463-5003(03)00026-X.

APPLICATIONS of POMgcs

Ezer, T. (2005), Entrainment, diapycnal mixing and transport in three-dimensional bottom gravity 
current simulations using the Mellor-Yamada turbulence scheme, Ocean Modelling, 9(2), 151-168, 
doi:10.1016/j.ocemod.2004.06.001.

Ezer, T. (2006), Topographic influence on overflow dynamics: Idealized numerical simulations and 
the Faroe Bank Channel overflow, J. Geophys. Res., 111, C02002, doi:10.1029/2005JC003195.

Wang, H., Y. Yuan, W. Guan, R. Lou, and K. Wang (2004), Circulation in the South China Sea during 
summer 2000 as obtained from observations and a generalized topography-following ocean model. 
J. Geophys. Res., 109, C07007, 10.1029/2003JC002134. 

Miyazawa, Y., R. Zhang, X. Guo, H. Tamura, D. Ambe, J-S Lee, A. Okuno, H. Yoshinari, T. Setou, and 
K. Komatsu (2009), Water mass variability in the western North Pacific detected in a 15-year eddy 
resolving ocean reanalysis, J. oceanography 65(6), 737-756.

Zhang, W-j, S-X Zhu, L-X Dong and C-K Zhang (2011), A new hybrid vertical coordinate ocean model 
and its application in the simulation of the Changjiang diluted water, China Ocean Eng., 25, 327-338.

Zhu, J. (2011), Overview of regional and coastal systems, in: Operational Oceanography in the 21st Century,
Springer Netherlands, 413-439.

Han, G., W. Li, X. Zhang, X. Wang, X. Wu, H. Fu, X. Zhang, L. Zhang and D. Li (2013), 
A new version of regional ocean reanalysis for coastal waters of China and adjacent seas
Adv. Atm. Sci., 30(4), 974-982.

Chen, X., Y. Yan, X. Cheng and Y. Qi (2013), Performances of seven datasets in presenting the upper 
ocean heat content in the South China Sea, Adv. Atm. Sci., 30, 1331-1342.

Wang, X., C. Wang, G. Han, W. Li and X. Wu (2014), Effects of tropical cyclones on large-scale circulation 
and ocean heat transport in the South China Sea, Clim. Dyn., 43(12), 3351-3366.

Zhang, X., G. Han, D. Li, X. Wu, W. Li and P. C. Chu (2014), Variational Estimation of Wave-affected 
Parameters in a Two-equation Turbulence Model, J. Atm. Oceanic Tech., doi:/10.1175/JTECH-D-14-00087.1.

REVIEW PAPER

Ezer, T., H. Arango and A. F. Shchepetkin (2002), Developments in terrain-following ocean models: 
Intercomparisons of numerical aspects, Ocean Modelling, 4, 249-267, doi:10.1016/S1463-5003(02)00003-3.