Extension of an orographic-drag parametrization scheme to incorporate orographic anisotropy and flow blocking

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 131, Issue 609, 2005, Pages 1893-1921

  Kim, Young Joon ^a   Doyle, James D ^a  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Blocked layer drag; Explicit gravity wave simulation; Form drag; Gravity wave drag; Off line evaluation; Regime diagram; Wave breaking

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ANISOTROPY; APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DRAG; GRAVITY WAVES; INTERPOLATION; STATISTICAL METHODS; WIND EFFECTS;

BLOCKED-LAYER DRAG; EXPLICIT GRAVITY-WAVE SIMULATION; FORM DRAG; GRAVITY-WAVE DRAG; REGIME DIAGRAM; WAVE BREAKING;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATMOSPHERIC BLOCKING; DRAG COEFFICIENT; GRAVITY WAVE; OROGRAPHIC EFFECT; PARAMETERIZATION;

EID: 27644455115     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/qj.04.160     Document Type: Article

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