A multiconserving discretization with enthalpy as a thermodynamic prognostic variable in generalized hybrid vertical coordinates for the NCEP global forecast system

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 139, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1583-1607

  Juang, Hann Ming Henry ^a  

^a CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Coordinate systems; Model evaluation performance; Numerical weather prediction forecasting; Primitive equations model; Thermodynamics; Vertical coordinates

Indexed keywords

CO-ORDINATE SYSTEM; MODEL EVALUATION/PERFORMANCE; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; PRIMITIVE EQUATIONS; VERTICAL COORDINATES;

DYNAMICS; ENTHALPY; ENTROPY; THERMODYNAMICS;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ANGULAR MOMENTUM; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COORDINATE; ENTHALPY; ERROR ANALYSIS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; HURRICANE; NUMERICAL MODEL; STORM TRACK; THERMODYNAMICS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 79958736421     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010MWR3295.1     Document Type: Article

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