A multimoment finite-volume shallow-water model on the Yin-Yang overset spherical grid

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 136, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 3066-3086

  Li, Xingliang ^a,b   Chen, Dehui ^b   Peng, Xindong ^b,c   Takahashi, Keiko ^c   Xiao, Feng ^a,d  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b STATE KEY LABORATORY OF SEVERE WEATHER   (China)

^c JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^d INSTITUTE OF MECHANICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; INTERPOLATION; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; NUMERICAL METHODS; WET ETCHING;

CURRENT MODELING; FINITE VOLUMES; GRID CELLS; GRID CONVERGENCE; HIGH-ORDER; LAGRANGIAN FORMULATIONS; MODEL VARIABLES; NUMERICAL ERRORS; NUMERICAL MODELLING; NUMERICAL TESTING; PHYSICAL FIELDS; POINT VALUE; POLAR REGIONS; SEMI-IMPLICIT; SEMI-LAGRANGIAN; SHALLOW-WATER EQUATIONS; SHALLOW-WATER MODELS; SPATIAL DISCRETIZATION; VOLUME INTEGRATED AVERAGE;

METHOD OF MOMENTS;

FINITE VOLUME METHOD; FORECASTING METHOD; INTERPOLATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; SHALLOW-WATER EQUATION;

EID: 53249107909     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007MWR2206.1     Document Type: Article

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