An explicit flux-form semi-Lagrangian shallow-water model on the sphere

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 123, Issue 544, 1997, Pages 2477-2498

  Lin, Shian Jiann ^a,b   Rood, Richard B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational test cases; Conservative advection; Numerical techniques

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUE; SHALLOW WATER EQUATION;

MASS TRANSPORT; SEMI-LAGRANGIAN ADVECTION SCHEME; SHALLOW WATER; SURFACE FLUX;

EID: 0031412460     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.49712354416     Document Type: Article

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