Articles | Volume 13, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-13-581-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-13-581-2020
Development and technical paper
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14 Feb 2020
Development and technical paper |  | 14 Feb 2020

Extending square conservation to arbitrarily structured C-grids with shallow water equations

Lilong Zhou, Jinming Feng, Lijuan Hua, and Linhao Zhong

Model code and software

TRiSK-based Multiple-Conservation dynamical cORE L. Zhou and L. Dong https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3241647

Idealized Global Atmospheric Models with Spectral Dynamics GFDL - Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3249878

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Short summary
Atmospheric simulation should obey the physical conservation law: in a closed atmospheric system, some of the invariants should be conserved, i.e. the total mass, total energy, total absolute vorticity and so on. In this paper, we have improved the conservative properties of the atmospheric model which is based on an arbitrarily structured C-grid. The tests show that better conservative properties bring us less simulation error, and the stability of model is also improved.