A global finite-difference semi-Lagrangian model for the adiabatic primitive equations

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 226, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 1645-1667

  Barros, Saulo R M ^a   Garcia, Claudia I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Finite differences; Global weather models; Multigrid; Primitive equations; Semi Lagrangian

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; NUMERICAL METHODS;

EULERIAN; FINITE-DIFFERENCE; GLOBAL WEATHER MODEL; MULTIGRIDS; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; PRIMITIVE EQUATIONS; SEMI-LAGRANGIAN; SEMI-LAGRANGIAN MODELS; TIME STEP; WEATHER MODELING;

PERSONAL COMPUTERS;

EID: 34548685336     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2007.06.011     Document Type: Article

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