“…Central-upwind schemes have been originally developed for hyperbolic systems of conservation laws [27,29,31] and then extended and applied to hyperbolic systems of balance laws arising in modeling shallow water flows; see, e.g., [6,13,25,26,28,30]. Here, we proceed along the lines of previous works in [8,[10][11][12] and develop a central-upwind scheme, which is well-balanced in the sense that it exactly preserves the geostrophic equilibria (1.11). This is achieved by performing a piecewise linear reconstruction of the equilibrium variables followed by well-balanced evolution, which uses modified central-upwind fluxes similar to those presented in [10].…”