A conservative semi-Lagrangian multi-tracer transport scheme (CSLAM) on the cubed-sphere grid

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 229, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1401-1424

  Lauritzen, Peter H ^a   Nair, Ramachandran D ^a   Ullrich, Paul A ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Advection; Conservation; Cubed sphere; Finite volume; Monotonicity; Multi tracer transport; PPM; Remapping; Semi Lagrangian

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; COMPUTATION THEORY; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS;

CUBED-SPHERE; FINITE-VOLUME; LINE INTEGRALS; MONOTONICITY; MULTI-TRACER TRANSPORT; REMAPPING; SEMI-LAGRANGIAN; TRACER TRANSPORT; TRANSPORT ALGORITHMS; TRANSPORT SCHEMES;

SPHERES;

EID: 72449122767     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2009.10.036     Document Type: Article

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