Exploring a multiresolution modeling approach within the shallow-water equations

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 139, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 3348-3368

  Ringler, Todd D ^a   Jacobsen, Doug ^b   Gunzburger, Max ^b   Ju, Lili ^c   Duda, Michael ^d   Skamarock, William ^d  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^d NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVAILABLE ENERGY; CENTROIDAL VORONOI TESSELLATION; CLIMATE SYSTEM; CORE FEATURES; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODELING; GRID RESOLUTION; GRID-SPACINGS; MACHINE PRECISION; MESH REFINEMENT; MESH RESOLUTION; MODEL DOMAINS; MULTI-RESOLUTION MODELING; MULTI-RESOLUTIONS; MULTIRESOLUTION MESH; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; SHALLOW WATER EQUATIONS; SHALLOW-WATER; TEMPORAL SCALE; TEST CASE; TRUNCATION ERRORS; VARIABLE RESOLUTION;

PROBABILISTIC LOGICS; TERNARY SYSTEMS; WATERWORKS;

EQUATIONS OF MOTION;

CLIMATE MODELING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SHALLOW-WATER EQUATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TESTING METHOD;

EID: 80052417414     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-10-05049.1     Document Type: Article

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