A fast and accurate numerical scheme for the primitive equations of the atmosphere

SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 719-737

  Shen, Jie ^a   Wang, Shouhong ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Primitive equations of the atmosphere; Semi implicit time discretization; Spectral Galerkin; Unconditional stability

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042725440     PISSN: 00361429     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/S0036142997324770     Document Type: Article

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