The diabatic contour advective semi-Lagrangian model

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 134, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 2503-2514

  Dritschel, David G ^a   Ambaum, Maarten H P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; GEOMETRY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; STORMS; TURBULENT FLOW;

CONTOUR ADVECTIVE SEMI-LAGRANGIAN MODEL; EULERIAN FIELD; TRACER ADVECTION SIMULATIONS;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ALGORITHM; CONTOUR MAP; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

EID: 33749003113     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR3202.1     Document Type: Article

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