Icosahedral Shallow Water Model (ICOSWM): Results of shallow water test cases and sensitivity to model parameters

Geoscientific Model Development

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 231-251

  Ripodas P ^a   Gassmann, A ^b   Forstner J ^a   Majewski, D ^a   Giorgetta, M ^b   Korn, P ^b   Kornblueh, L ^b   Wan, H ^b   Zangl G ^a   Bonaventura, L ^b,c   Heinze, T ^a  

^a DEUTSCHER WETTERDIENST   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

^c POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KINETIC ENERGY; KINETICS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; KINETIC ENERGY SPECTRA; MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE; NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCHES; NUMERICAL WEATHER FORECASTING; OPERATIONAL MODEL; SHALLOW WATER MODEL; SPECTRAL TRANSFORM SHALLOW WATER MODELS;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CLIMATE MODELING; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; KINETIC ENERGY; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SHALLOW WATER; TESTING METHOD; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 79951517314     PISSN: 1991959X     EISSN: 19919603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/gmd-2-231-2009     Document Type: Article

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