A parallel spectral model for atmospheric transport processes

Concurrency Practice and Experience

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 639-666

  Kindler, Thomas ^a,c   Schwan, Karsten ^b   Silva, Dilma ^b   Trauner, Mary ^b   Alyea, Fred ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^c PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMATION; CALCULATIONS; CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MULTIPROCESSING SYSTEMS; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SUPERCOMPUTERS; VISUALIZATION;

DISTRIBUTED MEMORY; GLOBAL ATMOSPHERIC MODELS;

NATURAL SCIENCES COMPUTING;

EID: 0030282202     PISSN: 10403108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9128(199611)8:9<639::AID-CPE233>3.0.CO;2-9     Document Type: Article

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