A multiresolution method for climate system modeling: Application of spherical centroidal Voronoi tessellations

Ocean Dynamics

Volumn 58, Issue 5-6, 2008, Pages 475-498

  Ringler, Todd ^a   Ju, Lili ^b   Gunzburger, Max ^c  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate modeling; Delaunay triangulation; Multiresolution; Voronoi diagram

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); GEODESY; GLACIERS; ICE; MESH GENERATION; MODEL STRUCTURES; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; OBJECT RECOGNITION; OCEAN CURRENTS; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MODELS; SPHERES; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; TRIANGULATION;

ATMOSPHERE MODELS; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE SYSTEM MODELS; CLIMATE SYSTEMS; CLOUD PROCESSES; DELAUNAY TRIANGULATION; DENSITY FUNCTIONS; EDDY ACTIVITIES; GENERATION TECHNIQUES; GLOBAL CLIMATE SYSTEMS; GREENLAND ICES; HYDROLOGICAL PROCESSES; ICE SHEET MODELS; ICE SHELVES; ICE STREAMS; LAND SYSTEMS; MULTIRESOLUTION; MULTIRESOLUTION METHODS; MULTIRESOLUTION SCHEMES; NORTH ATLANTIC OCEANS; NUMBER OF NODES; NUMERICAL EXAMPLES; OCEAN MODELS; QUALITY MEASURES; VOLUME METHODS; VORONOI DIAGRAM; VORONOI TESSELLATIONS; WATER EQUATIONS;

MULTIRESOLUTION ANALYSIS;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CLIMATE MODELING; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; HYDROLOGY; TRIANGULATION;

EID: 57849126275     PISSN: 16167341     EISSN: 16167228     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10236-008-0157-2     Document Type: Article

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