Spectral numerical weather prediction models

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Ehrendorfer Martin
Published: Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics,
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.