Well-posed lateral boundary conditions for spectral semi-implicit semi-Lagrangian schemes: Tests in a one-dimensional model

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 137, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 315-330

  Voitus, Fabrice ^a   Termonia, P ^b   Benard P ^a  

^a CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

^b ROYAL METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF BELGIUM   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY TREATMENTS; BUFFER ZONES; COURANT NUMBERS; EXPERIMENTAL TESTS; FOURIER; ITERATIVE SCHEMES; LATERAL BOUNDARIES; LATERAL BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; NUMERICAL INSTABILITIES; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTIONS; ONE-DIMENSIONAL; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODELS; SEMI-IMPLICIT; SEMI-IMPLICIT SCHEMES; SEMI-LAGRANGIAN; SEMI-LAGRANGIAN SCHEMES; SHALLOW-WATER EQUATIONS; TIME STEPS; TIME-MARCHING;

LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; WATER TREATMENT;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS;

BOUNDARY CONDITION; FOURIER TRANSFORM; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL METHOD; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 62649111720     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008MWR2539.1     Document Type: Article

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