Developing the next-generation climate system models: Challenges and achievements

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 367, Issue 1890, 2009, Pages 815-831

  Slingo, Julia ^a   Bates, Kevin ^b   Nikiforakis, Nikos ^b   Piggott, Matthew ^c   Roberts, Malcolm ^d   Shaffrey, Len ^a   Stevens, Ian ^e   Vidale, Pier Luigi ^a   Weller, Hilary ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climate modeling; Complex systems; Numerical methods; Petascale computing

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DYNAMICS; FISCHER-TROPSCH SYNTHESIS; FLUID DYNAMICS; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; MODEL STRUCTURES; NUMBER THEORY; OCEAN CURRENTS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ADAPTIVE MESH REFINEMENTS; CLIMATE FORECASTING; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE MODELS; CLIMATE SYSTEM MODELS; CLIMATE SYSTEMS; COMPLEX SYSTEMS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUIDS; DIFFERENT SCALE; EARTH SYSTEMS; HUMAN RESPONSE; INCREMENTAL IMPROVEMENTS; LEGACY CODES; LIVING ORGANISMS; MULTI-SCALE MODELLING; MULTISCALE NATURES; NUMERICAL MODELLING; PETASCALE COMPUTING; SPATIAL SCALE; SYSTEM MODELLING;

NUMERICAL METHODS;

CLIMATE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOLOGY; INTERNET; METHODOLOGY; RESEARCH; REVIEW; SCIENCE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

CLIMATE; CLIMATIC PROCESSES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOLOGY; INTERNET; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RESEARCH; SCIENCE;

EID: 60349083994     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2008.0207     Document Type: Article

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