An adaptive vertical coordinate formulation for a nonhydrostatic model with flux-form equations

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 135, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 228-239

  Zängl, Günther ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTH ATMOSPHERE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; WAVE EQUATIONS;

ADAPTIVE VERTICAL COORDINATES; ATMOSPHERIC EQUATIONS; HYBRID ISENTROPIC SYSTEM; MOUNTAIN WAVE TESTS; PROGNOSTIC EQUATION; TROPOPAUSE REGION;

GRAVITY WAVES;

ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; BREAKING WAVE; FLUX MEASUREMENT; GRAVITY WAVE; NUMERICAL METHOD; TROPOPAUSE;

EID: 33846664100     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR3298.1     Document Type: Article

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