Articles | Volume 11, issue 5
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-11-1785-2018
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-11-1785-2018
Methods for assessment of models
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08 May 2018
Methods for assessment of models |  | 08 May 2018

Impacts of the horizontal and vertical grids on the numerical solutions of the dynamical equations – Part 2: Quasi-geostrophic Rossby modes

Celal S. Konor and David A. Randall

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Short summary
We have discussed the effects of discretization on dispersion of midlatitude Rossby waves on the A, B, C, CD, (DC), D, E and Z horizontal grids, and the L and CP vertical grids. The Z, C, D and CD (DC) grids generate similar dispersion of the baroclinic and barotropic Rossby modes. The A, E and B grids generate multiple (non-unique) solutions. The modes with the smallest resolvable vertical scale on the L grid do not retrograde. The CP-grid solutions are much more accurate than the L grid.