A problem with the Robert-Asselin time filter for three-time-level semi-implicit semi-lagrangian discretizations

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 132, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 600-610

  Cordero, Elisabetta ^a   Staniforth, Andrew ^a  

^a MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

SEMI LAGRANGIAN DISCRETIZATION;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; METEOROLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL;

EID: 1542750992     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(2004)132<0600:APWTRT>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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