A Scientific Description of the GFDL Finite-Volume Cubed-Sphere Dynamical Core

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• Personal Author:
  Harris, Lucas ; Chen, Xi ; Putman, William ; Zhou, Linjiong ; Chen, Jan-Huey
• Corporate Authors:
  United States. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research. ; Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (U.S.)
• NOAA Program & Office:
  OAR (Oceanic and Atmospheric Research) ; GFDL (Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory)
• Description:
  FV3, the GFDL Finite-Volume Cubed-Sphere Dynamical Core, has its roots in the early ’90s at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. FV3’s origin is Shian-Jiann Lin’s offine transport module for a chemistry transport model (CTM), of which Goddard was a major center of development.
• Keywords:
  Fluid Mechanics Hydrostatics Mathematical Models FV3, cubed-sphere grid, FV3 solver, finite-volume, Langrangian, nonhydrostatic dynamics, data assimilation, coupling, model, model initialization, gridded, grid nesting, GFDL, OAR
• Series:
  NOAA technical memorandum OAR GFDL   2021-001
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.25923/6nhs-5897
• Document Type:
  Technical Memorandum
• License:
  https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
• Rights Information:
  CC0 Public Domain
• Compliance:
  Submitted
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:6c69893042cdc58b537f73101fe1a2ae0cd5d87f0f458048f0d986cef4b79064
• Download URL:
  https://repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/30725/noaa_30725_DS1.pdf
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