A flux-form conservative semi-Lagrangian multitracer transport scheme (FF-CSLAM) for icosahedral-hexagonal grids

Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 332-356

  Dubey, Sarvesh ^a   Mittal, Rashmi ^b   Lauritzen, Peter H ^c  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI   (India)

^b IBM INDIA RESEARCH LAB   (India)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

advection; FF CSLAM; finite volume; flux area; icosahedral hexagonal; monotonicity

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION; FINITE VOLUME METHOD;

FF-CSLAM; ICOSAHEDRAL-HEXAGONAL; MONOTONICITY; OVERALL ACCURACIES; POLYNOMIAL RECONSTRUCTION; RECONSTRUCTION FUNCTIONS; TRANSPORT SCHEMES; WEIGHTED LEAST SQUARES;

EARTH SCIENCES;

EID: 84904875810     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19422466     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013MS000259     Document Type: Article

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