Stability of semi-implicit and iterative centered-implicit time discretizations for various equation systems used in NWP

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 131, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 2479-2491

  Benard P ^a  

^a CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGY; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS;

LINEAR OPERATORS;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

ALGORITHM; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; STABILITY ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 0242415333     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(2003)131<2479:SOSAIC>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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