An unstructured-mesh atmospheric model for nonhydrostatic dynamics: Towards optimal mesh resolution

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 294, Issue , 2015, Pages 363-381

  Szmelter, Joanna ^a   Zhang, Zhao ^b   Smolarkiewicz, Piotr K ^c  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anelastic equations; Critical layer; Nonoscillatory forward in time schemes; Orographic flows; Unstructured mesh atmospheric models

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPIC MEDIA;

ANELASTIC EQUATION; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CRITICAL LAYER; NON-HYDROSTATIC; NON-OSCILLATORY FORWARD IN TIME; NONOSCILLATORY FORWARD-IN-TIME SCHEME; OROGRAPHIC FLOW; POSITIVE DEFINITE; UNSTRUCTURED MESH ATMOSPHERIC MODEL; UNSTRUCTURED MESHES;

MESH GENERATION;

EID: 84927616840     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2015.03.054     Document Type: Article

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