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Numerical Algorithms for ESM: State of the Art

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Numerical simulation of geophysical flows has been historically one of the earliest instances in which the power of electronic computers was employed successfully to the quantitative prediction of natural phenomena. Initially, the main focus was indeed on numerical weather forecasting, for which the ideas of Richardson had already provided an appropriate conceptual framework, that was subsequently strengthened by the analyses and the numerical simulations of Charney and von Neumann.

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Bonaventura, L., Beckmann, A. (2012). Numerical Algorithms for ESM: State of the Art. In: Earth System Modelling - Volume 2. SpringerBriefs in Earth System Sciences, vol 1. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23831-4_2

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