Spectral numerical weather prediction models

by Ehrendorfer, Martin

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Title Statements

Full title :Spectral numerical weather prediction models / Martin Ehrendorfer.

Summary

This book provides a comprehensive overview of numerical weather prediction (NWP) focusing on the application of the spectral method in NWP models. The author illustrates the use of the spectral method in theory as well as in its application to building a full prototypical spectral NWP model, from the formulation of continuous model equations through development of their discretized forms to coded statements of the model. The author describes the implementation of a specific model - PEAK (Primitive-Equation Atmospheric Research Model Kernel) - to illustrate the steps needed to construct a global spectral NWP model. The book brings together all the spectral, time, and vertical discretization aspects relevant for such a model. It provides readers with information necessary to construct spectral NWP models; a self-contained, well-documented, coded spectral NWP model; and theoretical and practical exercises, some of which include solutions.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2011.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM, 3600 Market Street, Floor 6, Philadelphia, PA 19104)
Place of Publication:Philadelphia, Pa
Language:eng
Publication Date:2011.

Notes

Titre de l'écran-titre (visionné le 19 avril 2013).

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (1 texte électronique (xxvi, 498 p.)) : : ill., fichiers PDF.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781611971996, 1611971993
oclc:ocn846661865
LC Classification:QC996
Dewey Decimal:551.63/4

Preface -- Acknowledgments -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of algorithms

Part I. Atmospheric dynamical models. Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Governing atmospheric dynamics -- Chapter 3. The primitive equations -- Chapter 4. The shallow-water model -- Chapter 5. The barotropic vorticity equation -- Chapter 6. Balanced flow

Part II. Spectral numerical models. Chapter 7. The spectral method -- Chapter 8. Vertical discretization -- Chapter 9. Time integration -- Chapter 10. Code structure of PEAK -- Chapter 11. Experimentation with PEAK -- Chapter 12. Barotropic PEAK configurations

Appendix A. Tensor analysis -- Appendix B. Spectral basis functions -- Appendix C. The PEAK model code -- After word -- Bibliography -- Index.