An Introduction to Atmospheric Modeling

• Table of Contents

• Cover Page

• Openers: Announcements, General References, Preface

• Chapter 1: Introduction

• Chapter 2: Basic Concepts

• Chapter 3: A Survery of Time-Differencing Schemes for the Oscillation and Decay Equations

• Chapter 4: A Closer look at the advection equation

• Chapter 5: Boundary-value problems

• Chapter 6: Diffusion

• Chapter 7: Making Waves

• Chapter 8: Schemes for the One-Dimensional Nonlinear Shallow-Water Equations

• Chapter 9: Vertical Differencing for Quasi-Static Models

• Chapter 10: Momentum Advection

• Chapter 11: Finite Differences on the Sphere

• Chapter 12: Spectral Methods

• Chapter 13: Boundary Conditions and Nested Grids

• List of tables

• List of references

• General References

• Full Book (2.6MB)

Gravity Wave Project (MPEG files):

• A Grid (A1hD.mpg)
• A Grid (A2uD.mpg)
• A Grid (A2hD.mpg)
• B Grid (B1hD.mpg)
• B Grid (B2uD.mpg)
• B Grid (B2hD.mpg)
• C Grid (C1hD.mpg)
• C Grid (C2uD.mpg)
• C Grid (C2hD.mpg)

- A Potential Enstrophy and Energy Conserving Scheme for the Shallow Water Equations Arakawa and Lamb, 1980