A mass-conservative, positive-definite, and efficient Eulerian advection scheme in spherical geometry and on a nonuniform grid system

Journal of Applied Meteorology

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 1897-1913

  Li, Yonghong ^a   Chang, Julius S ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION; EULERIAN ADVECTION SCHEME; GETTM; LONG RANGE TRANSPORT; SPHERICAL GEOMETRY; TRACER MODEL;

EID: 0030419413     PISSN: 08948763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0450(1996)035<1897:AMCPDA>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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