A comparison of two shallow-water models with nonconforming adaptive grids

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 136, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1898-1922

  St Cyr, Amik ^a   Jablonowski, Christiane ^a,b   Dennis, John M ^a   Tufo, Henry M ^c   Thomas, Stephen J ^a,d  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^d ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EQUATIONS OF MOTION; FINITE VOLUME METHOD;

ADAPTIVE MESH REFINEMENT; DYNAMIC ADAPTATIONS; GEO-POTENTIAL HEIGHTS; RELATIVE VORTICITY; ROSSBY-HAURWITZ WAVES; SHALLOW WATER EQUATIONS; SHALLOW WATER MODEL; SLOTTED CYLINDERS;

MESH GENERATION;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; INTERPOLATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; SHALLOW-WATER EQUATION;

EID: 49749109144     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007MWR2108.1     Document Type: Article

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