Call number:
AWI A13-11-0030
In:
Lecture Notes in Computational Science and Engineering
Description / Table of Contents:
This book surveys recent developments in numerical techniques for global atmospheric models. It is based upon a collection of lectures prepared by leading experts in the field. The chapters reveal the multitude of steps that determine the global atmospheric model design. They encompass the choice of the equation set, computational grids on the sphere, horizontal and vertical discretizations, time integration methods, filtering and diffusion mechanisms, conservation properties, tracer transport, and considerations for designing models for massively parallel computers. A reader interested in applied numerical methods but also the many facets of atmospheric modeling should find this book of particular relevance.
Type of Medium:
Monograph available for loan
Pages:
XVI, 556 S. : graph. Darst., Kt.
ISBN:
9783642116391
Series Statement:
Lecture Notes in Computational Science and Engineering 80
Note:
Contents: PART I EQUATIONS OF MOTION AND BASIC IDEAS ON DISCRETIZATIONS. - 1 Some Basic Dynamics Relevant to the Design of Atmospheric Model Dynamical Cores / John Thuburn. - 2 Waves, Hyperbolicity and Characteristics / Joseph Tribbia and Roger Temam. - 3 Horizontal Discretizations: Some Basic Ideas / John Thuburn. - 4 Vertical Discretizations: Some Basic Ideas / John Thuburn. - 5 Time Discretization: Some Basic Approaches / Dale R. Durran. - 6 Stabilizing Fast Waves / Dale R. Durran. - PART II CONSERVATION LAWS, FINITE-VOLUME METHODS, REMAPPING TECHNIQUES AND SPHERICAL GRIDS. - 7 Momentum, Vorticity and Transport: Considerations in the Design of a Finite-Volume Dynamical Core / Todd D. Ringler. - 8 Atmospheric Transport Schemes: Desirable Properties and a Semi-Lagrangian View on Finite-Volume Discretizations / Peter H. Lauritzen, Paul A. Ullrich, and Ramachandran D. Nair. - 9 Emerging Numerical Methods for Atmospheric Modeling / Ramachandran D. Nair, Michael N. Levy, and Peter H. Lauritzen. - 10 Voronoi Tessellations and Their Application to Climate and Global Modeling / Lili Ju, Todd Ringler, and Max Gunzburger. - PART III PRACTICAL CONSIDERATIONS FOR DYNAMICAL CORES IN WEATHER AND CLIMATE MODELS. - 11 Conservation in Dynamical Cores: What, How and Why? / John Thuburn. - 12 Conservation of Mass and Energy for the Moist Atmospheric Primitive Equations on Unstructured Grids / Mark A. Taylor. - 13 The Pros and Cons of Diffusion, Filters and Fixers in Atmospheric General Circulation Models / Christiane Jablonowski and David L. Williamson. - 14 Kinetic Energy Spectra and Model Filters / William C. Skamarock. - 15 A Perspective on the Role of the Dynamical Core in the Development of Weather and Climate Models / Richard B. Rood. - 16 Refactoring Scientific Applications for Massive Parallelism / John M. Dennis and Richard D. Loft.
Branch Library:
AWI Library
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