A contour-advective semi-Lagrangian numerical algorithm for simulating fine-scale conservative dynamical fields

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 123, Issue 540, 1997, Pages 1097-1130

  Dritschel, David G ^a,c   Ambaum, Maarten H P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Contour surgery; Fast algorithm; Potential vorticity; Turbulence; Vortex dynamics

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; DYNAMIC METEOROLOGY; LAGRANGIAN ALGORITHM; LARGE SCALE; POLAR VORTEX; STRATOSPHERE; TURBULENCE;

EID: 0031456101     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/smsqj.54014     Document Type: Article

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