Some references on the sphere:
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Logically Rectangular Grids and Finite Volume Methods for
PDEs in Circular and Spherical Domains,
by Donna A. Calhoun, Christiane Helzel, and Randall J. LeVeque,
SIAM Review 50 (2008), 723-752.
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Talk at BIRS, 2008
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Logically Rectangular Finite Volume Methods with
Adaptive Refinement on the Sphere,
by M. J. Berger and D. A. Calhoun, and C. Helzel, and R. J. LeVeque
Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A 2009 367, 4483-4496.
doi: 10.1098/rsta.2009.0168