Responses of different nonhydrostatic, pressure-coordinate models to orographic forcing

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 56, Issue 15, 1999, Pages 2553-2570

  Rõõm, Rien ^a   Mannik A ^b  

^a TARTU OBSERVATORY   (Estonia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYNAMICS; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER); PRESSURE; WAVE EQUATIONS; WIND;

ANELASTIC NONHYDROSTATIC MODEL; ELASTIC NONHYDROSTATIC MODEL; HYDROSTATIC PRIMITIVE EQUATION MODEL; OROGRAPHIC FORCING; PRESSURE COORDINATE DYNAMICS; PRESSURE COORDINATE MODELS; VERTICAL DISPLACEMENTS;

METEOROLOGY;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CLIMATE MODELING; OROGRAPHY;

EID: 0344771148     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0469(1999)056<2553:RODNPC>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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