An inherently mass-conserving semi-implicit semi-Lagrangian discretization of the deep-atmosphere global non-hydrostatic equations

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 140, Issue 682, 2014, Pages 1505-1520

  Wood, Nigel ^a   Staniforth, Andrew ^a   White, Andy ^a   Allen, Thomas ^a   Diamantakis, Michail ^a,c   Gross, Markus ^a   Melvin, Thomas ^a   Smith, Chris ^a   Vosper, Simon ^a   Zerroukat, Mohamed ^a   Thuburn, John ^b  

^a MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^c EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

C grid; Charney Phillips; SLICE; Spatial discretization; Spheroidal coordinates; Temporal discretization

Indexed keywords

EQUATIONS OF MOTION;

C-GRID; CHARNEY-PHILLIPS; SLICE; SPATIAL DISCRETIZATIONS; SPHEROIDAL COORDINATES; TEMPORAL DISCRETIZATION;

HYDRAULICS;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; GEOMETRY; HYDROSTATICS; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; SHALLOW-WATER EQUATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

EID: 84893396071     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.2235     Document Type: Article

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