A standard test set for numerical approximations to the shallow water equations in spherical geometry (Q1195136)

The numerical methods devised by the authors for solving shallow water equations in spherical geometry are applied to seven test cases presented in order of complexity. The aim, of course, is to perfect a numerical method for climate modelling. The seven cases are as follows: (i) advection of cosine bell over the pole, (ii) steady nonlinear zonal geostrophic flow, (iii) nonlinear steady zonal geostrophic flow with compact support, (iv) forced nonlinear system with a translating low pressure centre, (v) zonal flow over an isolated mountain, (vi) Rossby- Haurwitz wave, and (vii) observed atmospheric states.