The Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Model (OLAM). Part I: Shallow-water tests

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 136, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 4033-4044

  Walko, Robert L ^a   Avissar, Roni ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERICS; FLUID DYNAMICS; PROGRAMMING THEORY; TESTING;

ATMOSPHERE MODELS; ATMOSPHERIC MODELS; ATMOSPHERIC SYSTEMS; CODING STRUCTURES; DATA ASSIMILATIONS; DYNAMIC CORES; GEODESIC GRIDS; GEOGRAPHIC AREAS; GLOBAL MODELS; INITIALIZATION METHODS; LOCAL MESH REFINEMENTS; PARAMETERIZATIONS; REGIONAL ATMOSPHERIC MODELING SYSTEMS; REGIONAL MODELS; TEMPORAL DISCRETIZATIONS; TEST RESULTS; TRIANGULAR MESHES; VALIDATION TESTS; VERY HIGH RESOLUTIONS; VOLUME DISCRETIZATION; WATER EQUATIONS; WATER SIMULATIONS; WATER TESTS;

NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS;

ALGORITHM; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; DATA ASSIMILATION; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; NAVIER-STOKES EQUATIONS; SHALLOW-WATER EQUATION;

EID: 53749090948     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008MWR2522.1     Document Type: Article

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