Climate modeling with spectral elements

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 134, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 3610-3624

  Baer, Ferdinand ^a   Wang, Houjun ^a   Tribbia, Joseph J ^b   Fournier, Aimé ^a,b  

^a Bldg 142   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; INTEGRATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

CLIMATE MODELING; COMMUNITY ATMOSPHERE MODEL; SPECTRAL ELEMENT ATMOSPHERIC CLIMATE MODEL;

CLIMATOLOGY;

CLIMATE MODELING; GLOBAL CLIMATE; NUMERICAL METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; SHALLOW-WATER EQUATION;

EID: 33846222367     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR3360.1     Document Type: Article

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