A conservative scheme for 2D and 3D adaptive semi-Lagrangian advection

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This article describes a 2D and 3D adaptive and mass conserving semi-Lagrangian advection scheme for atmospheric transport problems.From the integral form of the conservation law we derive a semi-Lagrangian scheme based on conservation of mass along trajectories.The mapping of mass from the old (adaptively refined and possibly different) grid to the upstream control volume is performed by a mass packet based scheme, essentially consisting of a sub-grid discretization.We validate the new adaptive and conservative semi-Lagrangian scheme with four different analytic test cases.

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