Numerical consistency of metric terms in terrain-following coordinates

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 131, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1229-1239

  Klemp, Joseph B ^a   Skamarock, William C ^a   Fuhrer, Oliver ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b Land Climate Dynamics Group   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD;

PRESSURE GRADIENT;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; ATMOSPHERIC WAVE; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; PRESSURE GRADIENT; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT;

EID: 0042665283     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(2003)131<1229:NCOMTI>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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