A PV-based shallow-water model on a hexagonal-icosahedral grid

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 125, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 2328-2347

  Thuburn, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; CLIMATOLOGY; INTEGRATION; NUMERICAL METHODS; PERFORMANCE; THREE DIMENSIONAL; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ADVECTION; GRAVITY WAVE PHASE SPEED; HEXAGONAL ICOSAHEDRAL GRID; SHALLOW WATER MODEL;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

EID: 0031234065     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(1997)125<2328:APBSWM>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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