Numerical representation of geostrophic modes on arbitrarily structured C-grids

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 228, Issue 22, 2009, Pages 8321-8335

  Thuburn, J ^a   Ringler, T D ^b   Skamarock, W C ^c   Klemp, J B ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CELL CENTERS; CELL EDGES; CELL FACES; CORIOLIS TERMS; DISCRETIZATIONS; MASS VARIABLES; NUMERICAL REPRESENTATION; TWO-DIMENSIONS; VELOCITY COMPONENTS;

EQUATIONS OF MOTION;

EID: 70349233739     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2009.08.006     Document Type: Article

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