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A Positive Definite Advection Scheme for Use in Long Range Transport Models: Extension to Monotonicity

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Numerical modeling of atmospheric transport processes requires the solution of the continuity equation for prognostic variables such as momentum, heat, water vapor, liquid water or chemical species of the atmosphere. Although in the literature many advection schemes are known to solve this problem (Lax and Wendroff 1964, Crowley 1968, Tremback et al. 1987, Bott 1989a,b), these algorithms show different disadvantages, which sometimes yield undesirably poor numerical results. For instance, the upstream method is known to produce large numerical diffusion. The higher order versions of the advection schemes of Tremback et al. (1987) are much less diffusive. Unfortunately, the schemes are not positive definite, thus yielding in some cases negative values of positive definite quantities such as concentrations of chemical species.