Evaluating advection/transport schemes using interrelated tracers, scatter plots and numerical mixing diagnostics

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 138, Issue 665, 2012, Pages 906-918

  Lauritzen, P H ^a   Thuburn, J ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Correlations; Entropy; Filters; Idealized tests; Limiters; Long lived tracers

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TRACER; CHEMISTRY-CLIMATE MODELS; CORRELATIONS; FUNCTIONAL RELATION; IDEALIZED TESTS; SCATTER PLOTS; SEMI-LAGRANGIAN; STANDARD ERRORS; TRANSPORT PROBLEMS; TRANSPORT SCHEMES; TRUNCATION ERRORS; UNMIXING;

ENTROPY; FILTERS (FOR FLUIDS); FLOW FIELDS; LIMITERS; RADIOACTIVE TRACERS;

MIXING;

ADVECTION; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; CLIMATE MODELING; CORRELATION; ENTROPY; ERROR ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TRACER;

EID: 84862167756     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.986     Document Type: Article

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