Conservative transport schemes for spherical geodesic grids: High-order reconstructions for forward-in-time schemes

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 138, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 4497-4508

  Skamarock, William C ^a   Menchaca, Maximo ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Numerical anlysis modeling; Numerical weather prediction; Transport

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE ERRORS; COMPUTATIONAL STENCIL; FINITE-VOLUME; FIRST-ORDER; FOURTH-ORDER; HEXAGONAL MESHES; HIGH-ORDER RECONSTRUCTION; HIGHER ORDER; MESH DENSITY; NUMERICAL ANLYSIS MODELING; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; PARALLELIZATIONS; SECOND ORDERS; SPHERICAL GEODESIC GRID; TIME STEP; TIME-DEPENDENT FLOW; TRANSPORT; TRANSPORT SCHEMES;

SPHERES;

REPAIR;

CLIMATE PREDICTION; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; SPHERE; TESTING METHOD; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 78651065122     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010MWR3390.1     Document Type: Article

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