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Climate modeling with spherical geodesic grids
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| Title | Climate modeling with spherical geodesic grids |
| Publication Type | Journal Article |
| Year of Publication | 2002 |
| Authors | Randall, DA, Ringler, TD, Heikes, RP, Jones, P, Baumgardner, J |
| Journal | Computing in Science & EngineeringComputing in Science & EngineeringComputing in Science & Engineering |
| Volume | 4 |
| Pagination | 32-41 |
| ISBN Number | 1521-9615 |
| Keywords | Atmosphere, atmospheric general circulation model, Atmospheric modeling, Carbon dioxide, climate modeling, climatology, computational geometry, Computational modeling, digital simulation, ELU, EMU, Equations, Finite difference methods, geodesic discretization, geophysics computing, GIS and oceanography, massively parallel machines, Mesh generation, message passing, message-passing interface, Oceans, Power harmonic filters, Solid modeling, Voronoi cells |
| Abstract | A new approach to climate simulation uses geodesic grids generated from an icosahedron and could become on attractive alternative to current models. We implemented an atmospheric general circulation model using a geodesic discretization of the sphere. Our model uses the message-passing interface and runs efficiently on massively parallel machines. |
| Alternate Journal | Computing in Science & Engineering |