Grid
Meso-NH use a C-grid in the Arakawa convention [Arakawa and Lamb, 1977], both on the horizontal and on the vertical. This grid is shown on the following figure with:
1 : mass points
2 : u points
3 : v points
4 : w points
5 : vertical vorticity point
6 : vorticity components along y
7 : vorticity components along x
Meso-NH’s grid