Numerical analyses of Runge-Kutta implicit-explicit schemes for horizontally explicit, vertically implicit solutions of atmospheric models

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 140, Issue 682, 2014, Pages 1654-1669

  Lock, S J ^a   Wood, N ^b   Weller, H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

HEVI solutions; Numerical analyses; Runge Kutta methods; Time stepping schemes

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; DOMAIN DECOMPOSITION METHODS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; LIGHT VELOCITY; LINEAR SYSTEMS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS;

AMPLIFICATION FACTORS; COMPUTATIONAL COSTS; EXASCALE COMPUTING; FULLY IMPLICIT SCHEME; IMPLICIT-EXPLICIT SCHEME; PHASE AND GROUP VELOCITIES; TIME-STEPPING SCHEMES; VON-NEUMANN STABILITY ANALYSIS;

RUNGE KUTTA METHODS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ALGORITHM; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CLIMATE MODELING; DECOMPOSITION ANALYSIS; EIGENVALUE; ERROR ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; STABILITY ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84904995017     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.2246     Document Type: Article

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