Smooth quasi-homogeneous gridding of the sphere

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 124, Issue 546, 1998, Pages 637-647

  Purser, R J ^a,c   Rancic M ^b  

^a GENERAL SCIENCES CORPORATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY CORPORATION FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Global model; Grid generation; Shallow water

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE; FLUID MECHANICS; MODEL;

CLIMATE SIMULATION; FLUID MECHANICS; GLOBAL MODEL; GRID; SHALLOW WATER;

EID: 0031779349     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/smsqj.54611     Document Type: Article

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