Regime of validity of soundproof atmospheric flow models

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 67, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 3226-3237

  Klein, Rupert ^a   Achatz, Ulrich ^b   Bresch, Didier ^c   Knio, Omar M ^d   Smolarkiewicz, Piotr K ^e  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d Johns Hopkins University   (France)

^e National Center for Atmospheric Research   (France)

Author keywords

Anelastic models

Indexed keywords

ANELASTIC MODELS; ATMOSPHERIC FLOWS; EXTENDED MODEL; FORMAL ASYMPTOTICS; HIGHER ORDER; INTERNAL GRAVITY WAVES; INTERNAL WAVES; MODEL FOLLOWING; NON-LINEARITY; NONLINEAR TERMS; PHASE DIFFERENCE; PHILLIPS; POTENTIAL TEMPERATURE; PRESSURE SCALE; REDUCED MODEL; SCALE ANALYSIS; SOUND WAVES; THREE MODELS; TIME-SCALES; TOTAL VARIATION; WEAK STRATIFICATION;

ADVECTION; AERODYNAMICS; ASYMPTOTIC ANALYSIS; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; GRAVITY WAVES; HYDRODYNAMICS; MACH NUMBER; TIME MEASUREMENT; WAVES;

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CLIMATE MODELING; GRAVITY WAVE; INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW; INTERNAL WAVE; NONLINEAR WAVE; STRATIFICATION; TROPOSPHERE;

OGURA;

EID: 78049286814     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JAS3490.1     Document Type: Article

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