A comparison of grid quality of optimized spherical hexagonal-pentagonal geodesic grids

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 133, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 2817-2833

  Miura, Hiroaki ^a   Kimoto, Masahide ^b  

^a JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; OPTIMIZATION;

GRID OPTIMIZATION METHODS; GRID QUALITY; HEXAGONAL-PENTAGONAL GEODESIC GRIDS;

METEOROLOGY;

METEOROLOGY; NUMERICAL METHOD; OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 27744449647     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR2991.1     Document Type: Article

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