A parallel adaptive barotropic model of the atmosphere

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 223, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 609-628

  Läuter, Matthias ^a   Handorf, Dörthe ^a   Rakowsky, Natalja ^b   Behrens, Jörn ^a   Frickenhaus, Stephan ^a   Best, Meike ^a   Dethloff, Klaus ^a   Hiller, Wolfgang ^a  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b HAMBURG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adaptive grid; Analytical test cases; Atmospheric flow; Parallelization; Shallow water equations

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; LINEAR SYSTEMS;

ADAPTIVE GRIDS; ADAPTIVE MODELS; ANALYTICAL TEST CASE; ANALYTICAL TESTS; ATMOSPHERIC FLOWS; BAROTROPIC MODELS; PARALLELIZATIONS; SHALLOW WATER EQUATIONS; TEST CASE; UNIFORM GRIDS;

GALERKIN METHODS;

EID: 33947164298     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2006.09.029     Document Type: Article

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