A cell-integrated semi-lagrangian semi-implicit shallow-water model (CSLAM-SW) with conservative and consistent transport

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 141, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 2545-2560

  Wong, May ^a   Skamarock, William C ^b   Lauritzen, Peter H ^b   Stull, Roland B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINUITY EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; SEMI-IMPLICIT SCHEME; SHALLOW-WATER MODELS; SHAPE PRESERVATION; SPECIFIC CONCENTRATION; TRANSPORT SCHEMES;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGY;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ALGORITHM; BAROTROPIC MOTION; CLIMATE MODELING; GRAVITY WAVE; HELMHOLTZ EQUATION; JET STREAM; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; SHALLOW-WATER EQUATION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84880756746     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-12-00275.1     Document Type: Article

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