Frequency Filter for Time Integrations

Abstract

A simple filter for controlling high-frequency computational and physical modes arising in time integrations is proposed. A linear analysis of the filter with leapfrog, implicit, and semi-implicit, differences is made. The filter very quickly removes the computational mode and is also very useful in damping high-frequency physical waves. The stability of the leapfrog scheme is adversely affected when a large filter parameter is used, but the analysis shows that the use of centered differences with frequency filter is still more advantageous than the use of the Euler-backward method. An example of the use of the filter in an actual forecast with the meteorological equations is shown.