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  Simulation of tropical-cyclone-like vortices in shallow-water ICON-hex using goal-oriented r-adaptivity

Bauer, W., Baumann, M., Scheck, L., Gassmann, A., Heuveline, V., & Jones, S. (2014). Simulation of tropical-cyclone-like vortices in shallow-water ICON-hex using goal-oriented r-adaptivity. Theoretical and Computational Fluid Dynamics, 28, 107-128. doi:10.1007/s00162-013-0303-4.

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Bauer, Werner1, Author           
Baumann, Martin, Author
Scheck, Leonhard, Author           
Gassmann, Almut, Author           
Heuveline, Vincent, Author
Jones, Sarah, Author
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1Director’s Research Group OES, The Ocean in the Earth System, MPI for Meteorology, Max Planck Society, Bundesstraße 53, 20146 Hamburg, DE, ou_913553              

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 Abstract: We demonstrate how efficient r-adapted grids for the prediction of tropical cyclone (TC) tracks can be constructed with the help of goal-oriented error estimates. The binary interaction of TCs in a barotropic model is used as a test case. We perform a linear sensitivity analysis for this problem to evaluate the contribution of each grid cell to an error measure correlated with the cyclone positions. This information allows us to estimate the local grid resolution required to minimize the TC position error. An algorithm involving the solution of a Poisson problem is employed to compute how grid points should be moved such that the desired local resolution is achieved. A hexagonal shallow-water version of the next-generation numerical weather prediction and climate model ICON is used to perform model runs on these adapted grids. The results show that for adequately chosen grid adaptation parameters, the accuracy of the track prediction can be maintained even when a coarser grid is used in regions for which the estimated error contribution is low. Accurate track predictions are obtained only when a grid with high resolution consisting of cells with nearly constant size and regular shape covers the part of the domain where the estimated error contribution is large. The number of grid points required to achieve a certain accuracy in the track prediction can be decreased substantially with our approach. © 2013 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.

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Language(s): eng - English
 Dates: 20122013-052013-052014-02
 Publication Status: Issued
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 Rev. Type: Peer
 Identifiers: DOI: 10.1007/s00162-013-0303-4
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Pages: - Volume / Issue: 28 Sequence Number: - Start / End Page: 107 - 128 Identifier: -