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Icosahedral grids

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Atmospheric Circulation Dynamics and General Circulation Models

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In this chapter, we describe an icosahedral grid method for spherical grid discretization of global atmospheric models. An icosahedral grid is applied to a shallow-water model in this chapter, and application to a global three-dimensional model will be shown in the next chapter.

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Satoh, M. (2014). Icosahedral grids. In: Atmospheric Circulation Dynamics and General Circulation Models. Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13574-3_25

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