Towards the development of a robust model hierarchy: Investigation of dynamical limitations at low resolution and possible solutions

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 139, Issue 670, 2013, Pages 75-84

  Sanchez, Claudio ^a   Williams, Keith D ^a   Shutts, Glenn J ^a   Mcdonald, Ruth E ^a   Hinton, Tim J ^a   Senior, Cath A ^a   Wood, Nigel ^a  

^a MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Mid latitude variability; Model development; Semi Lagrangian dynamics; Storms; Vorticity confinement

Indexed keywords

DYNAMICAL FEATURES; EARTH SYSTEMS; EDDY KINETIC ENERGY; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HIGHER RESOLUTION; HORIZONTAL RESOLUTION; INTERPOLATION SCHEMES; LOW RESOLUTION; MID-LATITUDE VARIABILITY; MODEL DEVELOPMENT; NUMERICAL SCHEME; PARAMETRIZATIONS; QUINTIC; ROBUST MODELS; SEMI-LAGRANGIAN; SYNOPTIC CYCLONES; TIME-SCALES; VORTICITY CONFINEMENT;

EARTH ATMOSPHERE; KINETICS; STORMS; VORTICITY;

INTERPOLATION;

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; STORM; VORTICITY;

EID: 84873319089     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.1971     Document Type: Article

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