Instability in leapfrog and forward-backward schemes

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 138, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1497-1501

  Sun, Wen Yih ^a,b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Data assimilation; Instability; Shallow water equations

Indexed keywords

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; PLASMA STABILITY;

COURANT NUMBERS; DATA ASSIMILATION; LEAP-FROG SCHEMES; LINEARIZED SHALLOW WATER EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL SCHEME; REPEATED EIGENVALUES; SHALLOW WATER EQUATIONS;

STABILITY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA ASSIMILATION; EIGENVALUE; INSTABILITY; LINEARITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; SHALLOW-WATER EQUATION; SMOOTHING; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 77955622200     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009MWR3127.1     Document Type: Article

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