Articles | Volume 14, issue 11
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-14-6919-2021
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-14-6919-2021
Development and technical paper
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16 Nov 2021
Development and technical paper |  | 16 Nov 2021

Topography-based local spherical Voronoi grid refinement on classical and moist shallow-water finite-volume models

Luan F. Santos and Pedro S. Peixoto

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The Andes act as a wall in atmospheric flows and play an important role in the weather of South America but are currently underrepresented in weather and climate models. In this work, we propose grids that better capture the mountains and, using idealized dynamical models, study the effects caused by the use of such grids. While possibly improving forecasts for short periods, the grids introduce spurious numerical (nonphysical) effects, which can demand added caution from model developers.
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