The stratosphere's winter polar vortex is modeled as a Gaussian vortex centered over the north pole, and a quasi-topographic forcing function is applied to model the effects of breaking planetary waves affecting the stratosphere from below, as motivated by Juckes & McIntyre, Nature, 1987.
Computation details :
Adaptive Mesh Refinement + remeshing
14000 < N < 135000
48 cores
14.5 wall-clock hours
9 simulation days