Entropy sources in a dynamical core atmosphere model

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 132, Issue 614, 2006, Pages 43-59

  Woollings, Tim ^a   Thuburn, John ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cold bias; Lagrangian conservation; Scale selective dissipation

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; ERROR ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS;

BAROCLINIC WAVE SIMULATION; CROSS-ISENTROPE MASS FLUX; GIBBS ERROR; NUMERICAL HYPERDIFFUSION;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; BAROCLINIC WAVE; ENTROPY; NUMERICAL MODEL;

EID: 33644605448     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/qj.04.189     Document Type: Article

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