Dynamical core of an atmospheric general circulation model on a Yin-Yang grid

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 138, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 3988-4005

  Baba, Yuya ^a   Takahashi, Keiko ^a   Sugimura, Takeshi ^a   Goto, Koji ^b  

^a JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b NEC CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; BENCHMARK TESTS; DATA INTERPOLATION; DYNAMICAL CORE; HIGH-ORDER; INTERPOLATION METHOD; LONG-TERM INTEGRATION; MODEL VALIDATION; OVERSET GRID; SECOND-ORDER ACCURACY; SHALLOW-WATER MODELS; SHORT TIME SCALE; YIN-YANG GRID;

CLOUDS; EXPERIMENTS; FLOW FIELDS; INTERPOLATION;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTERPOLATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 77958485258     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010MWR3375.1     Document Type: Article

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