Forward semi-lagrangian advection with mass conservation and positive definiteness for falling hydrometeors

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 138, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1778-1791

  Juang, Hann Ming Henry ^a   Hong, Song You ^b  

^a CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER   (United States)

^b Yonsei University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Advection; Conservation of mass; Lagrangian circulation transport; Precipitation

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MODEL; BOTTOM CELLS; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; CONSERVATION OF MASS; EULERIAN; EULERIAN GRIDS; FALLING VELOCITY; GRID SYSTEMS; HIGHER ORDER; INTERPOLATION SCHEMES; LAGRANGIAN; LAGRANGIAN CIRCULATION/TRANSPORT; LEVEL ALGORITHMS; LINE TEST; MASS CONSERVATION; MICROPHYSICS; MONOTONICITY; PIECEWISE CONSTANT; PIECEWISE LINEAR; PIECEWISE PARABOLIC METHOD; POSITIVE DEFINITE; POSITIVE DEFINITENESS; REASONABLE ACCURACY; SEMI-LAGRANGIAN; SEMI-LAGRANGIAN ADVECTION SCHEMES; SEMI-LAGRANGIAN SCHEME; TERMINAL VELOCITY; TIME STEP; WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING;

ADVECTION; CLOUDS; EQUIPMENT TESTING; INTERPOLATION; PHYSICS; PIECEWISE LINEAR TECHNIQUES; STATISTICAL TESTS; TEST FACILITIES; VELOCITY; WEATHER FORECASTING;

LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS;

ADVECTION; ALGORITHM; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; EULERIAN ANALYSIS; HYDROMETEOROLOGY; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SQUALL LINE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 77955577928     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009MWR3109.1     Document Type: Article

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