An alternative cell-averaged departure point reconstruction for pointwise semi-Lagrangian transport schemes

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 141, Issue 691, 2015, Pages 2114-2126

  Malardel, Sylvie ^a   Ricard, Didier ^b  

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

^b MÉTÉO FRANCE   (France)

Author keywords

Advection; Conservation; Interpolation; Semi Lagrangian

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION; BUOYANCY; CONSERVATION; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; MAPPING; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); WEATHER FORECASTING;

BACKWARD TRAJECTORY; CONSERVATION PROPERTIES; CONTINUOUS MAPPINGS; CONVECTIVE PRECIPITATION; LIMITED AREA MODELS; POINT RECONSTRUCTION; PRECIPITATION FORECAST; SEMI-LAGRANGIAN;

INTERPOLATION;

ADVECTION; ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; CLIMATE MODELING; INTERPOLATION; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84941192119     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.2509     Document Type: Article

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