Conservative constraint for a quasi-uniform overset grid on the sphere

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 132, Issue 616, 2006, Pages 979-996

  Peng, Xindong ^a   Xiao, Feng ^b,c   Takahashi, Keiko ^a  

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

^b TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c STATE KEY LABORATORY OF SEVERE WEATHER   (China)

Author keywords

Conservation advective; Spherical geometry; Yin Yang grid

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; CONSTRAINT THEORY; DYNAMICS; INTERPOLATION;

CONSERVATIVE CONSTRAINT; QUASI-UNIFORM OVERSET GRID; SHALLOW-WATER DYNAMICAL EQUATIONS; SPHERICAL GEOMETRY; YIN-YANG GRID;

METEOROLOGY;

ALGORITHM; INTERPOLATION; LATITUDE; SPHERE;

EID: 33745014791     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/qj.05.18     Document Type: Article

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