Using variable-resolution meshes to model tropical cyclones in the community atmosphere model

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 142, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 1221-1239

  Zarzycki, Colin M ^a   Jablonowski, Christiane ^a   Taylor, Mark A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY ATMOSPHERE MODEL; COMPUTATIONAL DEMANDS; HIGH-RESOLUTION GRIDS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SUBGRID PARAMETERIZATION; TRANSITION REGIONS; TROPICAL CYCLOGENESIS; VARIABLE RESOLUTION;

CAMS; HURRICANES; STORMS; VORTEX FLOW;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

ADVECTION; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; COMPLEXITY; CYCLOGENESIS; GLOBAL CLIMATE; PARAMETERIZATION; TROPICAL CYCLONE; WAVE REFLECTION;

EID: 84896756109     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-13-00179.1     Document Type: Article

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