Spectral numerical weather prediction models
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Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics,
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Publisher Address: | Philadelphia |
Publication Dates: | c2012. |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
Series: |
Other titles in applied mathematics |
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Carrier Form: | xxv, 498 p.: ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm. |
ISBN: |
9781611971989 (pbk.) 1611971985 (pbk.) |
Index Number: | P456 |
CLC: | P456.7 |
Call Number: | P456.7/E334 |
Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. I. Atmospheric dynamical models. Introduction -- Governing atmospheric dynamics -- The primitive equations -- The shallow-water model -- The barotropic vorticity equation -- Balanced flow -- II. Spectral numerical models. The spectral method -- Vertical discretization -- Time integration -- Code structure of PEAK -- Experimentation with PEAK -- Barotropic PEAK configurations -- III. Appendices. A. Tensor analysis -- B. Spectral basis functions -- C. The PEAK model code. |