Spectral preconditioners for nonhydrostatic atmospheric models

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 131, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 2464-2478

  Thomas, Stephen J ^a   Hacker, Joshua P ^a   Smolarkiewicz, Piotr K ^a   Stull, Roland B ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; METEOROLOGY;

GENERALIZED CONJUGATE RESIDUAL (GCR) ALGORITHMS;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

ALGORITHM; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; MODEL VALIDATION; SPECTRAL RESOLUTION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 0242667030     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(2003)131<2464:SPFNAM>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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