Revisiting the Rossby-Haurwitz wave test case with contour advection

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 217, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 473-484

  Smith, Robert K ^a   Dritschel, David G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Contour advection; Potential vorticity; Rossby waves; Shallow water equations; Spherical geometry

Indexed keywords

EQUATIONS OF MOTION; GRAVITY WAVES; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; SPHERES; VORTICITY;

CONTOUR ADVECTION; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; POTENTIAL VORTICITY GRADIENTS; ROSSBY WAVE; ROSSBY-HAURWITZ WAVES; SHALLOW WATER EQUATIONS; SHALLOW WATERS; SPHERICAL GEOMETRIES; TEST CASE; WAVE TEST;

ADVECTION;

EID: 33748419261     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2006.01.011     Document Type: Article

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