A spline interpolation technique that preserves mass budgets

✍ Scribed by é.J.M. Delhez

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 608 KB
• Volume: 16
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0893-9659
• DOI: 10.1016/s0893-9659(02)00139-8

✦ Synopsis

The usual practice of forcing budget models by linear interpolations of mean data does not produce a forcing whose mean is the data value required. The usual third-order spline is modified into a fourth-order spline, called mc-spline, to cope with this issue.

The technique provides a smooth and faithful continuous interpolation of the original data that is well suited for its graphical representations or for the forcing of numerical models.