Mass conservation and the anelastic approximation

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 134, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 2989-3005

  Bannon, Peter R ^a   Chagnon, Jeffrey M ^a   James, Richard P ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CONSERVATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

ANELASTIC APPROXIMATION; BOUSSINESQ AIR PARCELS; HEAT EQUATION; MICROPHYSICAL CALCULATIONS; MOIST CONVECTION;

METEOROLOGY;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; BOUNDARY CONDITION; FLOW FIELD; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRESSURE FIELD;

EID: 33750432517     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR3228.1     Document Type: Article

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