A global Eta model on quasi-uniform grids

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 133, Issue 623, 2007, Pages 517-528

  Zhang, Hai ^a   Rančić, Miodrag ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^b CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cubic grid; General curvilinear system; Octagonal grid

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MAPPING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHYSICS;

CUBIC GRID; GENERAL CURVILINEAR SYSTEM; GLOBAL ETA MODEL; OCTAGONAL GRID; QUASI-UNIFORM GRIDS;

EARTH ATMOSPHERE;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; NUMERICAL MODEL;

EID: 34247233962     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.17     Document Type: Article

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