Computational performance of the dynamical part of a next generation climate model using an icosahedral grid on the Earth Simulator

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

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 63-69

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

^a NEC CORPORATION   (Japan)

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

Author keywords

Environmental and Climate Modeling; The Earth Simulator

Indexed keywords

EARTH (PLANET); SIMULATORS;

CLIMATE SIMULATION; COMPUTATIONAL PERFORMANCE; EARTH SIMULATORS; GLOBAL MODELING; MASSIVELY PARALLEL COMPUTERS; PARALLELIZATIONS; TOTAL PERFORMANCE; ULTRAHIGH RESOLUTION;

CLIMATE MODELS;

EID: 84942259099     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-044450680-1/50008-5     Document Type: Chapter

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