Computational Performance of the High-Resolution Atmospheric Model FAMIL

Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 355-359

  Lin Jiong, Zhou ^a,b   Yi Min, Liu ^a   Qing, Bao ^a   Hai Yang, Yu ^a,b   Guo Xiong, Wu ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

computational performance; efficiency; FAMIL; high resolution; scalability

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CLIMATE MODELING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SOFTWARE;

CHINA; TIANJIN;

EID: 84928818437     PISSN: 16742834     EISSN: 23766123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/16742834.2012.11447024     Document Type: Article

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