A semi-implicit method conserving mass and potential vorticity for the shallow water equations on the sphere

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids

Volumn 47, Issue 8-9, 2005, Pages 863-869

  Bonaventura, Luca ^a   Kornblueh, Luis ^a   Heinze, Thomas ^b   Ripodas, Pilar ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

^b DEUTSCHER WETTERDIENST   (Germany)

Author keywords

Delaunay triangulations; Icosahedral grid; Semi implicit methods; Shallow water equations; Vorticity preserving methods

Indexed keywords

CELLS; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; FLOW OF FLUIDS;

DISCRETIZATION; GEOPOTENTIAL GRADIENTS; SHALLOW WATER; VORTICITY;

WATER;

ATMOSPHERIC FLOW; CORIOLIS FORCE; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; SHALLOW-WATER EQUATION;

EID: 15744375750     PISSN: 02712091     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/fld.857     Document Type: Article

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