The ICON (ICOsahedral Non-hydrostatic) modelling framework of DWD and MPI-M: Description of the non-hydrostatic dynamical core

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 141, Issue 687, 2015, Pages 563-579

  Zängl, Günther ^a   Reinert, Daniel ^a   Rípodas, Pilar ^a   Baldauf, Michael ^a  

^a DEUTSCHER WETTERDIENST   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dynamical cores; Model development; Numerical weather prediction

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE PROPAGATION; COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; HYDRAULICS; WAVE PROPAGATION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

COMPUTATIONAL RESOURCES; CONTINUITY EQUATIONS; DYNAMICAL CORE; HORIZONTAL DIFFUSIONS; MODEL DEVELOPMENT; NON-HYDROSTATIC EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; PREDICTOR-CORRECTOR SCHEMES;

NUMERICAL MODELS;

EID: 84924548116     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.2378     Document Type: Article

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