[CF-metadata] Gaussian Lat/Lon grids

From: Brian Eaton <eaton>
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 09:03:11 -0600

Hi Jonathan,

A general mathematical description can be found here:
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/GaussianQuadrature.html

An example of how it's used in an atmospheric dynamical solver is here:
http://www.ccsm.ucar.edu/models/atm-cam/docs/description/node11.html#SECTION007110000000000000000

Brian

On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 08:37:30AM +0100, Jonathan Gregory wrote:
> Dear all
>
> >From Brian and Karl's emails I gather that Gaussian weights must be related to
> cell areas apart from some normalisation, but I still don't know what they are
> and I can't find it on google! I apologise for my ignorance, but I would be
> interested to understand this. Can anyone provide a definition?
>
> Cheers
>
> Jonathan
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