A proposed modification to the Robert-Asselin time filter

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 137, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 2538-2546

  Williams, Paul D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE ERRORS; COMPUTATIONAL EXPENSE; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; LEAPFROG SCHEME; LOSS OF ACCURACY; NUMERICAL ACCURACY; NUMERICAL MODELS; SIMPLE MODIFICATIONS; THIRD-ORDER; TIME SLICE; TIME STEP; TIME-STEPPING SCHEMES;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

SIMULATORS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AMPLITUDE; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; CLIMATE MODELING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; FILTER; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 70350341127     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009MWR2724.1     Document Type: Article

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