Parallelization and load balancing of a comprehensive atmospheric chemistry transport model

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 31, Issue 21, 1997, Pages 3561-3574

  Elbern, Hendrik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dynamic load balancing; Grid partitioning; Mesoscale air quality modeling; Message passing; Parallel computing; Parallel efficiency

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; CLOUDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OZONE; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

DYNAMIC LOAD BALANCING; GRID PARTITIONING; MESOSCALE AIR QUALITY MODELING;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; CHEMICAL TRANSPORT MODEL; LOAD BALANCING;

AIR QUALITY; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; CLOUD; COMPUTER; MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WORKLOAD;

EID: 0031282622     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1352-2310(97)00157-X     Document Type: Article

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