The Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Model (OLAM). Part II: Formulation and tests of the nonhydrostatic dynamic core

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 136, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 4045-4062

  Walko, Robert L ^a   Avissar, Roni ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERICS; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; FLOW SIMULATION; FLUID DYNAMICS; OCEAN CURRENTS;

ATMOSPHERE MODELS; CELL METHODS; CONSERVATION EQUATIONS; DENSITY CURRENTS; DISCRETIZATION; DYNAMIC CORES; GEODESIC GRIDS; GLOBAL CIRCULATIONS; GLOBAL MODELS; GRID LEVELS; MASS FLUXES; NONHYDROSTATIC; REGIONAL ATMOSPHERIC MODELING SYSTEMS; ROBUST SOLUTIONS; SPATIAL DISCRETIZATION; STAGGERED GRIDS; STANDARD BENCHMARKS; TEMPORAL DISCRETIZATION; TRIANGULAR MESHES; VERTICAL MOTIONS; VOLUME DISCRETIZATION; WAVE FLOWS;

NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; DENSITY CURRENT; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; NAVIER-STOKES EQUATIONS; SIMULATION;

EID: 53749092407     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008MWR2523.1     Document Type: Article

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