Estimating numerical errors due to operator splitting in global atmospheric chemistry models: transport and chemistry

DOI10.1016/J.JCP.2015.10.052MaRDI QIDQ2374938zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Mauricio Santillana, Lin Zhang, Robert Yantosca

Publication date 5 December 2016

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1505.02835

zbMATH Keywords

atmospheric chemistrymodel verificationnumerical errorsoperator splitting

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Finite difference methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M06) Chemistry (general) in thermodynamics and heat transfer (80A50) Finite difference methods applied to problems in thermodynamics and heat transfer (80M20) Computational methods for problems pertaining to geophysics (86-08) Meteorology and atmospheric physics (86A10)

Abstract: We present upper bounds for the numerical errors introduced when using operator splitting methods to integrate transport and non-linear chemistry processes in global chemical transport models (CTM). We show that (a) operator splitting strategies that evaluate the stiff non-linear chemistry operator at the end of the time step are more accurate, and (b) the results of numerical simulations that use different operator splitting strategies differ by at most 10 percent, in a prototype one-dimensional non-linear chemistry-transport model. We find similar upper bounds in operator splitting numerical errors in global CTM simulations.

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