Using enthalpy as a prognostic variable in atmospheric modelling with variable composition

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 134, Issue 637, 2008, Pages 2193-2197

  Akmaev, Rashid A ^a,c   Juang, H M H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER   (United States)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Entropy; Internal energy equation; Thermodynamic potentials; Virtual temperature

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERICS; ENTHALPY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; THERMODYNAMICS; WATER VAPOR; WEATHER FORECASTING;

CLIMATE MODELS; COMPOSITION VARIATIONS; ENERGY EQUATIONS; FIRST PRINCIPLES; INTERNAL ENERGY EQUATION; MOIST AIRS; NEW APPROACHES; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTIONS; PRESENCE OF WATERS; PROGNOSTIC VARIABLES; SPECIFIC ENTHALPIES; THERMODYNAMIC POTENTIALS; VIRTUAL TEMPERATURE;

ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CLIMATE MODELING; ENTHALPY; ENTROPY; NUMERICAL MODEL; THERMODYNAMICS; WATER VAPOR; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 58049198459     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.345     Document Type: Article

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