An inherently mass-conserving iterative semi-implicit semi-Lagrangian discretization of the non-hydrostatic vertical-slice equations

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 136, Issue 648, 2010, Pages 799-814

  Melvin, Thomas ^a   Dubal, Mark ^a   Wood, Nigel ^a   Staniforth, Andrew ^a   Zerroukat, Mohamed ^a  

^a MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

C grid; Charney Phillips; PSM; SLICE; Spatial discretization; Temporal discretization

Indexed keywords

BASIC STRUCTURE; DISCRETIZATIONS; PHILLIPS; REFERENCE STATE; SEMI-IMPLICIT; SEMI-IMPLICIT SCHEME; SEMI-LAGRANGIAN; SHALLOW-WATER; SPATIAL DISCRETIZATIONS; TEMPORAL DISCRETIZATION; TEST PROBLEM;

HYDRAULICS; HYDRODYNAMICS; INTERPOLATION; PULSE MODULATION;

LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HYDROSTATICS; INTERPOLATION; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; SHALLOW-WATER EQUATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 77953076563     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.603     Document Type: Article

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