A scale-invariant formulation of the anticipated potential vorticity method

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 139, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 2614-2629

  Chen, Qingshan ^a   Gunzburger, Max ^a   Ringler, Todd ^b  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Grid systems; Parameterization; Potential vorticity

Indexed keywords

GRID RESOLUTION; GRID SYSTEMS; MULTI-RESOLUTIONS; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; OPTIMAL PARAMETER; PARAMETERIZATIONS; PHENOMENOLOGICAL THEORY; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; QUASI-UNIFORM GRIDS; SCALE ANALYSIS; SCALE-INVARIANT; SINGLE PARAMETER; SUB-GRIDS; TEMPORAL SCALE; TIME STEP SIZE;

CLIMATE MODELS; PARAMETERIZATION;

VORTICITY;

CLIMATE MODELING; IMAGE RESOLUTION; PARAMETERIZATION; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TURBULENT FLOW;

EID: 80052415907     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-10-05004.1     Document Type: Review

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