An upper gravity-wave absorbing layer for NWP applications

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 136, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 3987-4004

  Klemp, J B ^a   Dudhia, J ^a   Hassiotis, A D ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; DAMPING; EXTRACTIVE METALLURGY; GRAVITATION; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; HYDRODYNAMICS; INTEGRATION; LANDFORMS; STORMS; WAVE ENERGY CONVERSION;

ABSORBING LAYERS; ATMOSPHERIC APPLICATIONS; COMPUTATIONAL MODELS; DAMPING LAYERS; HORIZONTAL SCALES; INTEGRATION SCHEMES; INTEGRATION TECHNIQUES; LINEAR WAVE EQUATIONS; MOMENTUM EQUATIONS; MOUNTAIN WAVES; NEW TECHNIQUES; NONHYDROSTATIC MODELS; RAYLEIGH DAMPING; ROCKY MOUNTAINS; SQUALL LINES; TIME STEPS; UNCONDITIONALLY STABLES; VERTICAL DIFFUSIONS; VERTICAL VELOCITIES; WAVE ENERGIES; WAVE SIMULATIONS;

WAVE EQUATIONS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION; FLOW STABILITY; GRAVITY WAVE; NUMERICAL MODEL; OROGRAPHY; RAYLEIGH WAVE; WAVE ENERGY; WAVE EQUATION;

NORTH AMERICA; ROCKY MOUNTAINS;

EID: 57149131262     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008MWR2596.1     Document Type: Article

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