Staggered vertical discretization of the canadian environmental multiscale (GEM) model using a coordinate of the log-hydrostatic-pressure type

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 142, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 1183-1196

  Girard, Claude ^a   Plante, André ^a   Desgagné, Michel ^a   Mctaggart Cowan, Ron ^a   Côté, Jean ^a   Charron, Martin ^a   Gravel, Sylvie ^a   Lee, Vivian ^a   Patoine, Alain ^a   Qaddouri, Abdessamad ^a   Roch, Michel ^a   Spacek, Lubos ^a   Tanguay, Monique ^a   Vaillancourt, Paul A ^a   Zadra, Ayrton ^a  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MODEL; DISCRETIZATIONS; GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL MULTISCALE MODELS; INTEGRATION SCHEME; SEMI-LAGRANGIAN; SOLUTION METHODS; SPHERICAL COORDINATES; VERTICAL COORDINATES;

HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; ITERATIVE METHODS;

HYDRAULICS;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; COORDINATE; EQUATION; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; NUMERICAL MODEL; WEATHER FORECASTING;

CANADA;

EID: 84896747844     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-13-00255.1     Document Type: Article

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