A two-way nested global-regional dynamical core on the cubed-sphere grid

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 141, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 283-306

  Harris, Lucas M ^a   Lin, Shian Jiann ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVERAGING METHOD; BAROCLINIC WAVES; GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS LABORATORIES; GOVERNING EQUATIONS; LARGE-SCALE FLOWS; LATERAL BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; MASS CONSERVATION; TWO-WAY NESTING;

VORTEX FLOW;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS;

ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; BOUNDARY CONDITION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EDDY; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; FLUID DYNAMICS;

EID: 84874839917     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-11-00201.1     Document Type: Article

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