Unification of the anelastic and quasi-hydrostatic systems of equations

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 137, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 710-726

  Arakawa, Akio ^a   Konor, Celal S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Department of Mechanical Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAROTROPIC; CONTINUITY EQUATIONS; GLOBAL CLOUDS; MIDLATITUDES; NO REFERENCES; NORMAL MODE ANALYSIS; PLANETARY WAVES; QUASI-GEOSTROPHIC APPROXIMATIONS; ROSSBY WAVE; SOUND WAVES; SURFACE PRESSURES; SYSTEM OF EQUATIONS; SYSTEMS OF EQUATIONS; THERMODYNAMIC EQUATIONS; TIME CHANGE; TIME DERIVATIVE; TOTAL ENERGY; UNIFIED SYSTEM;

HYDRAULICS; HYDRODYNAMICS; OCEAN CURRENTS; THERMODYNAMICS; VIBRATION CONTROL;

EQUATIONS OF MOTION;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; NUMERICAL MODEL; PLANETARY WAVE; ROSSBY WAVE; THERMODYNAMICS; TURBULENCE;

EID: 68249147601     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008MWR2520.1     Document Type: Article

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