An adaptive multimoment global model on a cubed sphere

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 139, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 523-548

  Chen, Chungang ^a   Xiao, Feng ^a,b   Li, Xingliang ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF MECHANICS   (China)

^b TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL CLIMATE CENTER   (China)

Author keywords

Shallow water equations

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MESH REFINEMENT ALGORITHMS; ADAPTIVE MESHES; ADVECTION EQUATIONS; ARTIFICIAL BOUNDARIES; BENCHMARK TESTS; CARTESIAN GRID; CELL-BASED; COMPUTATIONAL COSTS; CONSTRAINED INTERPOLATION PROFILES; CPU TIME; CURVILINEAR COORDINATE; FINITE VOLUME SCHEMES; FOURTH ORDER; GLOBAL MODELS; HIGH-ORDER; INTEGRATED FRAMEWORKS; MONOTONICITY; NUMERICAL ACCURACY; NUMERICAL ERRORS; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; NUMERICAL PROPERTIES; POINT VALUE; POSITIVE DEFINITENESS; SEMI-LAGRANGIAN SCHEME; SHALLOW WATER EQUATIONS; SHALLOW-WATER MODELS; SLOPE PARAMETER; THIRD-ORDER;

ALGORITHMS; INTERPOLATION; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS;

SPHERES;

ALGORITHM; ERROR ANALYSIS; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; INTERPOLATION; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; SHALLOW-WATER EQUATION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 79953204992     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010MWR3365.1     Document Type: Article

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