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Fornberg, B. and Merrill, D. (1997). Comparison of finite difference- and pseudospectral methods for convective flow over a sphere. Geophysical Research Letters 24: doi: 10.1029/97GL03272. issn: 0094-8276. |
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For modeling convective flows over a sphere or within a spherical shell, pseudospectral (PS) methods are in general far more cost-effective than finite difference- (or finite element) methods. This study confirms this, and proceeds by comparing a Fourier-PS implementation (based on a longitude-latitude grid) with one using spherical harmonics. For similar resolutions, these are found to be of similar accuracy. However, the former is computationally about ten times faster. ¿ 1997 American Geophysical Union |
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Keywords
Mathematical Geophysics, Numerical solutions, Mathematical Geophysics, Modeling, Meteorology and Atmospheric Dynamics, Numerical modeling and data assimilation |
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American Geophysical Union 2000 Florida Avenue N.W. Washington, D.C. 20009-1277 USA 1-202-462-6900 1-202-328-0566 service@agu.org |
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