An inherently mass-conserving semi-implicit semi-Lagrangian discretisation of the shallow-water equations on the sphere

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 135, Issue 642, 2009, Pages 1104-1116

  Zerroukat, M ^a   Wood, N ^a   Staniforth, A ^a   White, A A ^a   Thuburn, J ^b  

^a MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Analytical nonlinear solutions; C grid; Orographic forcing; Spatial discretisation; Temporal discretisation

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL NONLINEAR SOLUTIONS; C-GRID; OROGRAPHIC FORCING; SPATIAL DISCRETISATION; TEMPORAL DISCRETISATION;

LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS;

NONLINEAR EQUATIONS;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; OROGRAPHIC EFFECT; SHALLOW-WATER EQUATION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 70149116559     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.458     Document Type: Article

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