Held-Suarez simulations with the Community Atmosphere Model Spectral Element (CAM-SE) dynamical core: A global axial angular momentum analysis using Eulerian and floating Lagrangian vertical coordinates

Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 129-140

  Lauritzen, Peter H ^a   Bacmeister, Julio T ^a   Dubos, Thomas ^b   Lebonnois, Sébastien ^b,c   Taylor, Mark A ^d  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b LABORATOIRE DE MÉTÉOROLOGIE DYNAMIQUE   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

angular momentum; dynamical core; Galerkin methods; hyperviscosity; spectral elements; vertical discretization

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR MOMENTUM; BEAMS AND GIRDERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GALERKIN METHODS; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS;

AXIAL ANGULAR MOMENTUMS; COMMUNITY ATMOSPHERE MODEL; CONSERVATION PROPERTIES; DISCRETIZATIONS; DYNAMICAL CORE; HYPERVISCOSITY; SPECTRAL ELEMENT; VERTICAL COORDINATES;

CAMS;

ANGULAR MOMENTUM; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; DIVERGENCE; EULERIAN ANALYSIS; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; PARAMETERIZATION; SOURCE-SINK DYNAMICS; TITAN; VENUS;

EID: 84899060400     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19422466     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013MS000268     Document Type: Article

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