Analysis of the numerics of physics-dynamics coupling

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 128, Issue 586 PART B, 2002, Pages 2779-2799

  Staniforth, Andrew ^a   Wood, Nigel ^a   Côté, Jean ^b  

^a MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^b Meteorological Srvc Canada   (Canada)

Author keywords

Computational resonance; Forced response; Semi implicit; Semi Lagrangian

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DAMPING; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; RESONANCE;

COUPLING;

METEOROLOGY;

ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; CLIMATE MODELING; NUMERICAL MODEL; PHYSICS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 0036820868     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/qj.02.25     Document Type: Article

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