Analysis of grid imprinting on geodesic spherical icosahedral grids

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 237, Issue , 2013, Pages 61-78

  Peixoto, Pedro S ^a   Barros, Saulo R M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Alignment index; Discretization error; Divergence discretization; Geodesic grid; Grid alignment; Grid imprinting; Icosahedral grid

Indexed keywords

ALIGNMENT; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; GEODESY;

ALIGNMENT INDEX; DISCRETIZATION ERRORS; DISCRETIZATIONS; DIVERGENCE DISCRETIZATION; GEODESIC GRID; GLOBAL ATMOSPHERIC MODELS; GRID ALIGNMENT; GRID IMPRINTING; ICOSAHEDRAL GRID; NUMERICAL GRIDS;

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EID: 84872479359     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2012.11.041     Document Type: Article

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