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This chapter describes a global atmospheric model for very high resolution simulations to explicitly calculate deep convective circulations, which play key roles not only in tropical circulations but in global circulations of the atmosphere. Since the horizontal scale of upward cores of deep convection is about a few kilometers, they cannot be directly resolved by hydrostatic atmospheric general circulation models. In order to drastically enhance horizontal resolution, a new framework for global atmospheric models is required. Around a resolution with a mesh size of the orders of a few kilometers, we need to use a nonhydrostatic dynamical core instead of the hydrostatic models described in Chapters 20–23. In general, as horizontal resolution increases, grid methods become more computationally efficient than spectral methods. As preparations for this chapter, therefore, we described a nonhydrostatic scheme in Chapter 24 and icosahedral grids in Chapter 25 as a typical emaple of grid discretization method over a sphere. This chapter combinei the numerical techniques described in the previous two chapters to introduce a global nonhydrostatic model.

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Satoh, M. (2014). Global nonhydrostatic models. In: Atmospheric Circulation Dynamics and General Circulation Models. Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13574-3_26

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