Multiscale interactions in an idealized walker cell: Simulations with sparse space-time superparameterization

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 143, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 563-580

  Slawinska, Joanna ^a   Pauluis, Olivier ^b   Majda, Andrew J ^b   Grabowski, Wojciech W ^c  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY ABU DHABI   (United Arab Emirates)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPACTION; COMPRESSED SENSING; DATA COMPRESSION; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

CLOUD RESOLVING MODEL; CLOUD RESOLVING SIMULATIONS; COMPUTATIONALLY EFFICIENT; LARGE-SCALE CIRCULATION; LOW FREQUENCY VARIABILITY; MULTISCALE INTERACTIONS; SUPERPARAMETERIZATION; TWO-DIMENSIONAL DOMAIN;

ALGORITHMS;

ALGORITHM; ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; PARAMETERIZATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; WALKER CIRCULATION;

EID: 84928880608     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-14-00082.1     Document Type: Article

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