A multiscale nonhydrostatic atmospheric model using centroidal Voronoi tesselations and C-grid staggering

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 140, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 3090-3105

  Skamarock, William C ^a   Klemp, Joseph B ^a   Duda, Michael G ^a   Fowler, Laura D ^a   Park, Sang Hun ^a   Ringler, Todd D ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Grid systems; Model evaluation performance; Nonhydrostatic models; Numerical analysis modeling

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MODEL; CARTESIAN PLANE; CLIMATE PREDICTION; GLOBAL MODELS; GRID SYSTEMS; HIGH RESOLUTION; HORIZONTAL RESOLUTION; LARGE-SCALE FLOWS; MODEL EVALUATION; MULTISCALES; NONHYDROSTATIC MODEL; PROGNOSTIC VARIABLES; REGIONAL CLIMATE; TIME-INTEGRATION; UNSTRUCTURED GRID; VORONOI;

CLIMATOLOGY;

C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE);

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; HYDROSTATICS; MESH SIZE; NUMERICAL METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; TRANSITION ZONE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84861385507     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-11-00215.1     Document Type: Article

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