The accumulation of hounding errors and port validation for global atmospheric models

SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 552-564

  Rosinski, James M ^a   Williamson, David L ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Code porting; Error growth; Port validation

Indexed keywords

PORT VALIDATION; ROUNDING ERRORS; TEMPERATURE DIFFERENCES;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; ERRORS; TURBULENT FLOW;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 0031082736     PISSN: 10648275     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/S1064827594275534     Document Type: Article

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