A new gravity-wave-drag scheme incorporating anisotropic orography and low-level wave breaking: Impact upon the climate of the UK Meteorological Office Unified Model

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 124, Issue 546, 1998, Pages 463-493

  Gregory, D ^a,b   Shutts, G J ^a   Mitchell, J R ^a  

^a MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^b EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Gravity wave drag; Mesoscale simulations; Orographic roughness; Parametrization

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; BLOCKING; FLOW; GRAVITY WAVE; INTERNAL WAVE; OROGRAPHY; TROPOSPHERE; WAVE DRAG;

EID: 0031779870     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/smsqj.54605     Document Type: Article

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