The 0.125 degree finite-volume general circulation model on the NASA Columbia supercomputer: Preliminary simulations of mesoscale vortices

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2006, Pages

  Shen, Bo Wen ^a,b   Atlas, R ^c   Chern, J D ^a,d   Reale, O ^a,d   Lin, S J ^e   Lee, T ^f   Chang, J ^g,h  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b SAIC FREDERICK INC   (United States)

^c ATLANTIC OCEANOGRAPHIC AND METEOROLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^e NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^f NASA HEADQUARTERS   (United States)

^g NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^h Computer Sciences Corporation ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; HURRICANES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SUPERCOMPUTERS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

FINITE-VOLUME GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; MESOSCALE VORTICES; ULTRA-HIGH RESOLUTION SIMULATIONS;

CLIMATOLOGY;

CLIMATE FORCING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HURRICANE; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; VORTICITY; WEATHER FORECASTING;

COLOMBIA; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 33646338465     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL024594     Document Type: Article

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