Mixed finite elements for numerical weather prediction

DOI10.1016/J.JCP.2012.05.020zbMath1284.86005arXiv1103.2440OpenAlexW2090853409MaRDI QIDQ2446743

Jemma Shipton, Colin John Cotter

Publication date: 22 April 2014

Published in: Journal of Computational Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1103.2440

zbMATH Keywords

stabilitymixed finite elementsnumerical weather predictiongeophysical fluid dynamicssteady geostrophic states

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics (35Q35) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M60) Meteorology and atmospheric physics (86A10)

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Uses Software

• NICAM

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