Development of a nonhydrostatic general circulation model using an icosahedral grid

Parallel Computational Fluid Dynamics 2002: New Frontiers and Multi-Disciplinary Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 115-122

  Tomita, Hirofumi ^a   Satoh, Masaki ^a   Goto, Koji ^b  

^a JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b NEC CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Environmental and Climate Modeling; Icosahedral grid; Nonhydrostatic model

Indexed keywords

FINITE VOLUME METHOD; NUMERICAL METHODS;

GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HIGH RESOLUTION; HORIZONTAL GRID; HORIZONTAL RESOLUTION; ICOSAHEDRAL GRID; NON-HYDROSTATIC EQUATIONS; NONHYDROSTATIC MODEL; NUMERICAL SCHEME;

CLIMATE MODELS;

EID: 84942252025     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-044450680-1/50015-2     Document Type: Chapter

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