Nonhydrostatic icosahedral atmospheric model (NICAM) for global cloud resolving simulations

DOI10.1016/j.jcp.2007.02.006zbMath1132.86311OpenAlexW2035908552WikidataQ58063782 ScholiaQ58063782MaRDI QIDQ2482157

Yanyan Li

Publication date: 16 April 2008

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2007.02.006

zbMATH Keywords

atmospheric general circulation modelsnonhydrostatic modelaqua-planet experimentscloud clusterscloud resolving modelicosahedral grids

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Meteorology and atmospheric physics (86A10) Numerical methods for partial differential equations, initial value and time-dependent initial-boundary value problems (65M99) Basic methods in fluid mechanics (76M99)

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Uses Software

• chammp
• NICAM

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