A discontinuous Galerkin global shallow water model

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 133, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 876-888

  Nair, Ramachandran D ^a   Thomas, Stephen J ^a   Loft, Richard D ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINITE VOLUME METHOD; OSCILLATIONS; POLYNOMIALS; RUNGE KUTTA METHODS;

DISCONTINUOUS GALERKIN; MACHINE PRECISION; SHALLOW WATER; SPATIAL DISCRETIZATION;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

GALERKIN METHOD; SHALLOW-WATER EQUATION;

EID: 18544370717     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR2903.1     Document Type: Article

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