Adaptive Atmospheric Modeling: Key Techniques in Grid Generation, Data Structures, and Numerical Operations with Applications

Key Techniques in Grid Generation, Data Structures, and Numerical Operations with Applications

Author: Jorn Behrens Series: Lecture Notes in Computational Science and Engineering

An overview of the development of adaptive techniques for atmospheric modeling. Written in an educational style, it functions as a starting point for readers interested in adaptive modeling, in atmospheric sciences and beyond. It includes coverage such as paradigms of adaptive techniques, such as error estimation and adaptation criteria.

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This is an overview of the development of adaptive techniques for atmospheric modeling. Written in an educational style, it functions as a starting point for readers interested in adaptive modeling, in atmospheric sciences and beyond. Coverage includes paradigms of adaptive techniques, such as error estimation and adaptation criteria. Mesh generation methods are presented for triangular/tetrahedral and quadrilateral/hexahedral meshes, with a special section on initial meshes for the sphere.

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This work represents the essence of nearly 16 years of work in scienti'c c- puting for ocean and atmospheric modeling. This journey started at Alfred- Wegener-Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Bremerhaven, Germany, where - as a post graduate - I was assigned to optimize multi-grid solvers for ellipticpartialdi'erentialequationsevolvingfromoceanmodeling. Iamlucky and grateful that I had the chance to go all that way, to have the opportunity to explore the subject from many di'erent angles, to have wonderful teachers and colleagues, and to have the chance to work and visit such exquisit places as theNational Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, USA, the Frontier Research System for Global Change at the Yokohama Institute for Earth Science (Earth Simulator) in Yokohama, Japan, the Max-Planck- Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg, Germany, the aforementioned Alfred- Wegener-Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Bremerhaven and Po- dam, Germany, the Technische Universit