Short-term time step convergence in a climate model

Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 215-225

  Wan, Hui ^a   Rasch, Philip J ^a   Taylor, Mark A ^b   Jablonowski, Christiane ^c  

^a PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

climate model; convergence; numerical error; time integration

Indexed keywords

EARTH ATMOSPHERE; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; ERRORS; NUMERICAL MODELS; PARAMETERIZATION; TESTING;

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; COMMUNITY ATMOSPHERE MODEL; CONVERGENCE; HORIZONTAL GRID SPACING; NUMERICAL CONVERGENCE; NUMERICAL ERRORS; NUMERICAL TREATMENTS; TIME INTEGRATION;

CLIMATE MODELS;

CLIMATE MODELING; CONVERGENCE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; RESOLUTION;

EID: 84928780295     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19422466     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014MS000368     Document Type: Article

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