On the use of the super compact scheme for spatial differencing in numerical models of the atmosphere

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 131, Issue 609, 2005, Pages 2109-2129

  Esfahanian, Vahid ^a   Ghader, S ^b   Mohebalhojeh, A R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^b Atmospheric Science and Meteorological Research Center ASMERC   (Iran)

Author keywords

Arakawa Jacobian; Inertia gravity waves; Numerical grids; Spherical geometry; Super Compact Finite Difference

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FLUID DYNAMICS; GRAVITY WAVES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; NUMERICAL METHODS; VECTORS;

INERTIA GRAVITY WAVES; NUMERICAL GRIDS; SPHERICAL GEOMETRY; SUPER COMPACT FINITE DIFFERENCE;

METEOROLOGY;

FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; GRAVITY WAVE; NUMERICAL METHOD;

EID: 27644432625     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/qj.04.73     Document Type: Article

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