A conservative scheme for the shallow-water system on a staggered geodesic grid based on a Nambu representation

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 135, Issue 639, 2009, Pages 485-494

  Sommer, Matthias ^a   Névir, Peter ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Conservative operators; Nambu dynamics; NWP

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATIVE OPERATORS; DISCRETIZATIONS; ENSTROPHY; GEODESIC GRID; NAMBU DYNAMICS; NON-EXISTENCE; NWP; SEMIDISCRETIZATION; SHALLOW-WATER; SPATIAL DISCRETIZATION SCHEMES; SPECTRAL PROPERTIES; TOTAL ENERGY;

DYNAMICS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; TERNARY SYSTEMS; WATER PIPING SYSTEMS; WATERWORKS;

GEODESY;

GEODESY; NUMERICAL METHOD; SHALLOW-WATER EQUATION; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 67649432568     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.368     Document Type: Article

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