A new approach to atmospheric general circulation model: Global cloud resolving model nicam and its computational performance

SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 2755-2776

  Tomita, Hirofumi ^a   Goto, Koji ^b   Satoh, Masaki ^c  

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

^b NEC CORPORATION   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Climate model; Global cloud resolving model; Isocahedral grid

Indexed keywords

EARTH ATMOSPHERE; EARTH SYSTEM MODELS; SUPERCOMPUTERS;

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL-CIRCULATION MODEL; CLIMATE STUDIES; COMPUTATIONAL PERFORMANCE; GLOBAL CLOUD RESOLVING MODEL; HIGH RESOLUTION; ISOCAHEDRAL GRID; MODEL USE; NEW APPROACHES; NON-HYDROSTATIC;

CLIMATE MODELS;

EID: 55149093618     PISSN: 10648275     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/070692273     Document Type: Article

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