Parallel computation in atmospheric chemical modeling

Parallel Computing

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 111-130

  Dabdub, Donald ^a   Seinfeld, John H ^a  

^a California Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Air quality modeling; Atmospheric models; Distributed memory multiprocessors; Parallel I O; Workstation cluster

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION; COMPUTER WORKSTATIONS; DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMICAL DYNAMIC MODELS; DISTRIBUTED MEMORY MULTIPLE INSTRUCTION/MULTIPLE DATA MACHINES;

PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0029735002     PISSN: 01678191     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0167-8191(95)00063-1     Document Type: Article

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