Overview
- Surveys the horizontal, vertical and temporal discretization techniques for today's and future-generation global atmospheric models.
- Gives practical guidance in designing dynamical cores: including formulation of the equations, numerical conservation properties, shape-preserving transport, unstructured computational grids and parallel computing aspects.
- Reviews in depth the many poorly documented dissipation and filtering mechanisms in operational weather prediction and climate models.
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computational Science and Engineering (LNCSE, volume 80)
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Equations of Motion and Basic Ideas on Discretizations
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Conservation Laws, Finite-Volume Methods, Remapping Techniques and Spherical Grids
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Practical Considerations for Dynamical Cores in Weather and Climate Models
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About this book
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.
Reviews
From the reviews:
“This monograph, edited by Peter Lauritzen, Christiane Jablonowski, Mark Taylor and Ramachandran Nair, brings together current developments in the field of global atmospheric modeling with modern computational techniques that are likely to determine fruitful directions for further advanced study and research. … This new edited research monograph contains references to a large number of books, monographs and research papers which will stimulate further study and research in global atmospheric models and modern computational methods. ” (L. Debnath, Mathematical Reviews, Issue 2012 m)
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Numerical Techniques for Global Atmospheric Models
Editors: Peter Lauritzen, Christiane Jablonowski, Mark Taylor, Ramachandran Nair
Series Title: Lecture Notes in Computational Science and Engineering
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-11640-7
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Mathematics and Statistics, Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-11639-1Published: 30 March 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-26761-1Published: 21 April 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-11640-7Published: 29 March 2011
Series ISSN: 1439-7358
Series E-ISSN: 2197-7100
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 564
Topics: Computational Mathematics and Numerical Analysis, Partial Differential Equations, Atmospheric Sciences