The finite-volume dynamical core has been developed for quasi-uniform cubed-sphere grids within a flexible modeling framework for direct implementation as a modular component within the global modeling efforts at NASA, GFDL-NOAA, NCAR, DOE and other interested institutions. The shallow water equations serve as a dynamical framework for testing the implementation and the variety of quasi-orthogonal cubed-sphere grids ranging from conformal mappings to those numerically generated via elliptic solvers. The cubed-sphere finite-volume dynamical core has been parallelized with a 2-dimensional X-Y domain decomposition to achieve optimal scalability to 100,000s of processors on today's high-end computing platforms at horizontal resolutions of 0.25-degrees and finer. The cubed-sphere fvcore is designed to serve as a framework for hydrostatic and non-hydrostatic global simulations at climate (4- to 1-deg) and weather (25- to 5-km) resolutions, pushing the scale of global atmospheric modeling from the climate/synoptic scale to the meso- and cloud-resolving scale. / A Dissertation submitted to the Department of Meteorology in partial fulfillment of
the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. / Degree Awarded: Summer Semester, 2007. / Date of Defense: May 17, 2007. / Cubed-Sphere, Shallow Water, Advection, Dynamical Core, Finite-Volume / Includes bibliographical references. / James J. O'Brien, Professor Directing Dissertation; Shian-Jiann Lin, Outside Committee Member; Richard Rood, Outside Committee Member; T. N. Krishnamurti, Committee Member; I. Michael Navon, Committee Member; Xiaolei Zou, Committee Member.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_168667 |
| Contributors | Putman, William M. (authoraut), O'Brien, James J. (professor directing dissertation), Lin, Shian-Jiann (outside committee member), Rood, Richard (outside committee member), Krishnamurti, T. N. (committee member), Navon, I. Michael (committee member), Zou, Xiaolei (committee member), Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences (degree granting department), Florida State University (degree granting institution) |
| Publisher | Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English, English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text, text |
| Format | 1 online resource, computer, application/pdf |
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