Horizontal grids for global weather and climate prediction models: a review

A Staniforth, J Thuburn - Quarterly Journal of the Royal …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
A latitude–longitude grid is used by almost all operational atmospheric forecast models, and
many research models. However, it is expected that the advantages of a latitude–longitude …

Three-dimensional solar wind modeling from the Sun to Earth by a SIP-CESE MHD model with a six-component grid

X Feng, L Yang, C **ang, ST Wu, Y Zhou… - The Astrophysical …, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
The objective of this paper is to explore the application of a six-component overset grid to
solar wind simulation with a three-dimensional (3D) Solar-InterPlanetary Conservation …

[BOOK][B] Magnetohydrodynamic modeling of the solar corona and heliosphere

X Feng - 2019 - books.google.com
The book covers intimately all the topics necessary for the development of a robust
magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) code within the framework of the cell-centered finite volume …

Lateral variations in CMB heat flux and deep mantle seismic velocity caused by a thermal–chemical-phase boundary layer in 3D spherical convection

T Nakagawa, PJ Tackley - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2008 - Elsevier
Numerical simulations of thermo-chemical, multi-phase, compressible mantle convection in
a three-dimensional spherical shell are used to investigate the relationship between lateral …

A new three-dimensional solar wind model in spherical coordinates with a six-component grid

X Feng, M Zhang, Y Zhou - The Astrophysical Journal …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
In this paper, we introduce a new three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamics numerical
model to simulate the steady state ambient solar wind from the solar surface to 215 R s or …

Calculation and Expression of the Urban Heat Island Indices Based on GeoSOT Grid

J Jiang, Y Zhou, X Guo, T Qu - Sustainability, 2022 - mdpi.com
The urban heat island (UHI) effect accelerates the accumulation of atmospheric pollutants,
which has a strong impact on the climate of cities, circulation of material, and health of …

SDOG-based multi-scale 3D modeling and visualization on global lithosphere

JQ Yu, LX Wu, GJ Zi, ZZ Guo - Science China Earth Sciences, 2012 - Springer
The structure of global lithosphere is very important to the scientific researches of tectonic
movement, geodynamic process, mantle convection, resource exploration, and disaster …

Impact megadomes and the origin of the martian crustal dichotomy

CC Reese, CP Orth, VS Solomatov - Icarus, 2011 - Elsevier
We show that a sufficiently energetic impact can generate a melt volume which, after
isostatic adjustment and differentiation, forms a spherical cap of crust with underlying …

Ellipsoidal Clipmaps–A planet-sized terrain rendering algorithm

AM Dimitrijević, DD Rančić - Computers & Graphics, 2015 - Elsevier
Terrain visualization is an important aspect of many applications, especially of 3D
geographic information systems, which try to preserve the accuracy of the applied terrain …

Impact origin for the Martian crustal dichotomy: Half emptied or half filled?

CC Reese, CP Orth… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
One possible mechanism for Martian hemispherical dichotomy formation is excavation of the
northern lowland basin in the existing crust by a single giant impact. Here we explore a …