Notes and Correspondence: Accounting for non-uniform static stability in orographic drag parametrization

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 135, Issue 640, 2009, Pages 815-822

  Vosper, S B ^a   Wells, H ^a   Brown, A R ^a  

^a MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Flow blocking; Form drag; Froude number; Gravity waves; Wakes

Indexed keywords

FLOW BLOCKING; FORM DRAG; HEIGHT VARIATION; NONUNIFORM; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; PARAMETRIZATIONS; STATIC STABILITY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION LANGUAGES; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; FORESTRY; FROUDE NUMBER; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; GRAVITY WAVES; HYDRODYNAMICS; WAKES; WAVES;

DRAG;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRESPONDENCE ANALYSIS; DRAG; FLOW STABILITY; FROUDE NUMBER; GRAVITY WAVE; HEIGHT; NUMERICAL MODEL; OROGRAPHIC EFFECT; PARAMETERIZATION; WAKE;

EID: 69549122845     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.407     Document Type: Article

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