Spectral Numerical Weather Prediction Models

Martin Ehrendorfer has worked on atmospheric dynamics and numerical models for more than two decades at the University of Vienna, the University of Innsbruck, the University of Reading, the National Centre for Atmospheric Research and the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts.

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 Part III: Appendices: Appendix A: Tensor Analysis Appendix B: Spectral Basis Functions Appendix C: The PEAK Model Code Afterword Bibliography Index.