High-resolution numerical-model integrations to validate gravity-wave-drag parametrization schemes: A case-study

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 122, Issue 535, 1996, Pages 1625-1653

  Broad, Adrian S ^a  

^a MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Gravity wave drag; Non hydrostatic modelling; Orography; Parametrization; Pyrenees

Indexed keywords

DRAG; GRAVITY WAVES; MODELLING-MATHEMATICAL;

GRAVITY WAVE; HYDROSTATIC MODEL; OROGRAPHY; WAVE DRAG; WAVE STRESS;

FRANCE, PYRENEES;

EID: 0030391654     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.49712253508     Document Type: Article

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