Towards a consistent numerical compressible non-hydrostatic model using generalized Hamiltonian tools

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 134, Issue 635, 2008, Pages 1597-1613

  Gassmann, Almut ^a   Herzog, Hans Joachim ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

^b DEUTSCHER WETTERDIENST   (Germany)

Author keywords

Conservable quantity; NWP; Poisson bracket

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; FASTENERS; HYDRAULICS; HYDRODYNAMICS; INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW; PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; TURBULENCE;

AVERAGED MODELS; BUDGET EQUATIONS; CLIMATE SIMULATIONS; CONSERVABLE QUANTITY; CONSERVATION PROPERTIES; DIABATIC HEATING; DISCRETISATION; DRY AIRS; HELICITY; HYDROSTATIC EQUATIONS; HYDROSTATIC MODELS; IDEAL FLUIDS; NWP; NWP MODELS; PHYSICS EQUATIONS; POISSON BRACKET; POISSON BRACKETS; POTENTIAL VORTICITIES; PRE-REQUISITES; THREE PHASIS;

POISSON EQUATION;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CLIMATE MODELING; DIABATIC PROCESS; NUMERICAL MODEL; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; PREDICTION; TURBULENCE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 57349105226     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.297     Document Type: Article

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