Instability in a class of explicit two-time-level semi-Lagrangian schemes

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 130, Issue 596 PART A, 2004, Pages 365-369

  Durran, Dale R ^a   Reinecke, P Alexander ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Numerical weather prediction; Stability

Indexed keywords

LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; OPTIMIZATION; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; STABILITY; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

OPTIMAL STABILITY; SEMI-LANGRANGIAN SCHEMES;

METEOROLOGY; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS;

INSTABILITY; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ABSOLUTE STABILITY; FORCING TERMS; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; OPTIMAL STABILITY; SECOND ORDERS; SEMI-LAGRANGIAN; SEMI-LAGRANGIAN SCHEME;

EID: 0442280907     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/qj.03.14     Document Type: Article

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