The Canadian Global Environmental Multiscale model on the Yin-Yang grid system

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 137, Issue 660, 2011, Pages 1913-1926

  Qaddouri, Abdessamad ^a   Lee, Vivian ^a  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Domain decomposition method; Overset grid on the sphere; Semi Lagrangian semi implicit scheme

Indexed keywords

DISCRETIZATIONS; DOMAIN DECOMPOSITIONS; DYNAMIC CORES; GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL MULTISCALE MODELS; GLOBAL FORECASTS; GLOBAL MODELS; LAGRANGE INTERPOLATIONS; LIMITED AREA MODELS; MODEL VALIDATION; MULTISCALES; OPERATIONAL MODEL; OVERLAP REGION; OVERSET GRID; PARAMETRIZATIONS; PHYSICAL PROCESS; SEMI-LAGRANGIAN; SEMI-LAGRANGIAN METHODS; SPHERICAL COORDINATES; SUB-GRIDS; TIME STEP; TWO-WAY COUPLING; YIN-YANG GRID;

DOMAIN DECOMPOSITION METHODS; SPHERES; WEATHER FORECASTING;

LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECOMPOSITION ANALYSIS; MODELING; PARAMETERIZATION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 80055081875     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.873     Document Type: Article

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