An incremental remapping transport scheme on a spherical geodesic grid

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 133, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 2335-2350

  Lipscomb, William H ^a   Ringler, Todd D ^b  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Engineering Research Center and Hydraulics Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; GEODESY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

FLUX CORRECTED TRANSPORT SCHEME; INCREMENTAL REMAPPING; SPHERICAL GEODESIC GRID;

METEOROLOGY;

CLIMATE MODELING; MAPPING; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 24944497550     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR2983.1     Document Type: Article

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