The hypohydrostatic rescaling and its impacts on modeling of atmospheric convection

Theoretical and Computational Fluid Dynamics

Volumn 20, Issue 5-6, 2006, Pages 485-499

  Pauluis, Olivier ^a   Frierson, Dargan M W ^b   Garner, Stephen T ^c   Held, Isaac M ^c   Vallis, Geoffrey K ^d  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate model; General circulation of the atmosphere; Moist convection

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEAT CONVECTION; HEAT RADIATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELS; CLIMATE MODELS; HYPOHYDROSTATIC RESCALING; MOIST CONVECTION;

AERODYNAMICS;

AERODYNAMICS; COMPUTATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEAT CONVECTION; HEAT RADIATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CLIMATE MODELING; DIABATIC PROCESS; HYDROSTATICS; SCALE EFFECT; SIMULATION;

EID: 33750189407     PISSN: 09354964     EISSN: 14322250     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00162-006-0026-x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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