Assessing the numerical accuracy of complex spherical shallow-water flows

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 135, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 3876-3894

  Mohebalhojeh, Ali R ^a,b   Dritschel, David G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ANGULAR MOMENTUM; BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; FLOW OF WATER; FROUDE NUMBER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; VORTICITY;

POTENTIAL VORTICITY (PV); ROSSBY NUMBER; SHALLOW-WATER FLOWS;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ADVECTION; ALGORITHM; BOUNDARY LAYER; CLIMATE PREDICTION; EULERIAN ANALYSIS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SHALLOW-WATER EQUATION; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 36749103702     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007MWR2036.1     Document Type: Article

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