
Fig. 1.
The grid system for a hemisphere, with N= 40 points around the equator, and without overlapping.

Fig. 2.
Orthogonally projected grid system on the equatorial plane, with overlapping corresponding to the centred 4th order method, and with N= 40.
Table 5.
The Rossby–Haurwitz wave: Relative changes of the total mass and energy.
Table 3.
Normalized errors for steady state geostrophic flow.
Table 2.
Normalized errors for solid rotation of the Cosine bell.

Fig. 3.
Contour curves for smooth deformational flow: , N = 240, 2p = 4 and Time=12 days.
Table 1.
Normalized errors for smooth deformational flow, stationary vortex.

Fig. 4.
Absolute errors as function of lat–lon, with 2p = 6, N = 240 and .

Fig. 5.
Geostrophic flow with compact support, with and N= 240.
Table 4.
Normalized errors for geostrophic flow with compact support.

Fig. 6.
Absolute errors as function of lat–lon, with 2p = 6, N = 240 and .

Fig. 7.
Test problems no. 2 and 3 from Williamson et al. (1992). In each panel the lower curve correspond to and the upper to . In all cases 2p = 6, N = 240 and .
