Block-structured adaptive meshes and reduced grids for atmospheric general circulation models

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 367, Issue 1907, 2009, Pages 4497-4522

  Jablonowski, Christiane ^a   Oehmke, Robert C ^b   Stout, Quentin F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive mesh refinement; Baroclinic wave; Block structured grid; Dynamical core; Reduced latitude longitude grid; Shallow water

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; THREE DIMENSIONAL; VORTEX FLOW;

ADAPTIVE MESH REFINEMENT; BAROCLINIC WAVES; DYNAMICAL CORE; SHALLOW WATERS; STRUCTURED GRID;

CLIMATE MODELS;

EID: 73249122629     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2009.0150     Document Type: Article

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