Determining near-boundary departure points in semi-Lagrangian models

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 135, Issue 644, 2009, Pages 1890-1896

  Wood, Nigel ^a   Staniforth, Andrew ^a   White, Andy ^a  

^a MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Discretisation; Finite volume; Kinematic equation; Mass conservation; Trajectory

Indexed keywords

DISCRETISATION; DOMAIN BOUNDARY; FINITE VOLUME; KINEMATIC EQUATION; MASS CONSERVATION; MASS TRANSPORT; MODEL DOMAINS; SEMI-LAGRANGIAN MODELS; SEMI-LAGRANGIAN SCHEME; TRAJECTORY EQUATION;

KINEMATICS; RELATIVITY; TRAJECTORIES;

LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS;

AIRFLOW; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; BOUNDARY CONDITION; BOUNDARY LAYER; ERROR ANALYSIS; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; KINEMATICS; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; MASS TRANSPORT;

EID: 71049133043     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.478     Document Type: Article

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