Moving vortices on the sphere: A test case for horizontal advection problems

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 136, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 699-711

  Nair, Ramachandran D ^a   Jablonowski, Christiane ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW FIELDS; GALERKIN METHODS; SPHERES; VORTEX FLOW; WIND;

ADAPTIVE MESH REFINEMENT (AMR); DISCONTINUOUS GALERKIN METHOD; HORIZONTAL ADVECTION; HORIZONTAL WIND FIELD;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ADVECTION; ALGORITHM; FLOW FIELD; GALERKIN METHOD; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL METHOD; SPHERE;

EID: 44449175042     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007MWR2105.1     Document Type: Article

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