Well posedness of the initial value problem for vertically discretized hydrostatic equations

SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 195-207

  Bourchtein, Andrei ^a   Kadychnikov, Vladimir ^b  

^a Pelotas State University ^*  (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PELOTAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Initial value problems; Numerical weather prediction; Oscillatory matrices; Well posedness

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; LINEAR EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS;

NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; OSCILLATORY MATRICES; WELL POSEDNESS;

INITIAL VALUE PROBLEMS;

EID: 1842613678     PISSN: 00361429     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/S0036142901398313     Document Type: Article

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