Stability of some exact solutions of the shallow-water equations for testing numerical models in spherical geometry

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 134, Issue 632, 2008, Pages 771-778

  Staniforth, Andrew ^a   White, A A ^a  

^a MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Barotropic stability; Jet; Planetary rotation; Vortex

Indexed keywords

NUMERICAL METHODS; ROTATION; SPHERES; TRAJECTORIES;

AXISYMMETRIC; BAROTROPIC; BAROTROPIC STABILITY; EXACT SOLUTIONS; NUMERICAL MODELS; PLANETARY ROTATION; PLANETARY ROTATIONS; SPHERICAL GEOMETRIES; SUFFICIENT CONDITIONS; TIME EVOLUTIONS; VORTEX; VORTICITY DYNAMICS; WATER EQUATIONS;

NONLINEAR EQUATIONS;

BAROTROPIC INSTABILITY; FROUDE NUMBER; GEOMETRY; JET; NUMERICAL MODEL; PLANETARY ROTATION; ROSSBY NUMBER; SHALLOW WATER;

EID: 55349111861     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.240     Document Type: Article

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