A scalable implementation of a finite-volume dynamical core in the community atmosphere model

International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 203-212

  Mirin, Arthur A ^a   Sawyer, William B ^b  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Atmospheric dynamics; Parallel processing

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; OPTIMIZATION; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; COMMUNITY ATMOSPHERE MODEL; FINITE VOLUME DISCRETIZATION; PARALLEL PROCESSING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 23844539932     PISSN: 10943420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1094342005056096     Document Type: Article

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