A global shallow-water model using an expanded spherical cube: Gnomonic versus conformal coordinates

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 122, Issue 532, 1996, Pages 959-982

  Rancic M ^a,d   Purser, R J ^b,c   Mesinger, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY CORPORATION FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b GENERAL SCIENCES CORPORATION   (United States)

^c Natl Centers Environ Prediction   (United States)

^d CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Finite differences; Numerical weather prediction; Quasi uniform grids; Shallow water equations

Indexed keywords

NUMERICAL METHOD; SHALLOW WATER MODEL; WEATHER PREDICTION;

EID: 0030452194     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/smsqj.53208     Document Type: Article

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