An Idealized Comparison of One-Way and Two-Way Grid Nesting

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 138, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 2174-2187

  Harris, Lucas M ^a   Durran, Dale R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Grid systems; Model comparison; Numerical analysis modeling; Shallow water equations

Indexed keywords

COARSE GRID; GRID SYSTEMS; GROUP VELOCITIES; MESOSCALE MODEL; NESTED GRID; PHASE DIFFERENCE; PHASE SPEED; SHALLOW WATER EQUATIONS; SHALLOW-WATER MODELS; SPONGE LAYERS; TWO-WAY NESTING;

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; BOUNDARY CONDITION; CLIMATE PREDICTION; ESTIMATION METHOD; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SHALLOW-WATER EQUATION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 77955568349     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010MWR3080.1     Document Type: Article

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