A spectral deferred correction method applied to the shallow water equations on a sphere

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 141, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 3435-3449

  Jia, Jun ^a   Hill, Judith C ^a   Evans, Katherine J ^a   Fann, George I ^a   Taylor, Mark A ^b  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Differential equations; Error analysis; Numerical analysis modeling

Indexed keywords

BACKWARD DIFFERENTIATION FORMULAE; BENCH-MARK PROBLEMS; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; MODELING ENVIRONMENTS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS/MODELING; SHALLOW WATER EQUATIONS; TEMPORAL DISCRETIZATION; TIME INTEGRATION METHODS;

BENCHMARKING; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; ERROR ANALYSIS; EULER EQUATIONS; RUNGE KUTTA METHODS; TRANSIENTS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ATTENUATION;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; ERROR ANALYSIS; GAUSSIAN METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; SHALLOW-WATER EQUATION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84884961289     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-12-00048.1     Document Type: Article

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