Analysis of parallel versus sequential splittings for time-stepping physical parameterizations

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 132, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 121-132

  Dubal, Mark ^a   Wood, Nigel ^a   Staniforth, Andrew ^a  

^a MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBLEM SOLVING;

NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION (NWP); SEQUENTIAL SPLITTINGS; TIME-STEPPING PHYSICAL PARAMETERIZATIONS;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

MODELING; NUMERICAL METHOD; PARAMETERIZATION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 1842535265     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(2004)131<0121:AOPVSS>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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