Testing the anelastic nonhydrostatic model EULAG as a prospective dynamical core of a numerical weather prediction model Part II: Simulations of supercell

Acta Geophysica

Volumn 59, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1267-1293

  Kurowski, Marcin J ^a   Rosa, Bogdan ^a   Ziemianski M Z ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF METEOROLOGY AND WATER MANAGEMENT   (Poland)

Author keywords

anelastic equations; dynamical core; moist convection; storm splitting; supercell simulation

Indexed keywords

ANELASTIC EQUATIONS; COLD POOL; DOMAIN GEOMETRY; DYNAMICAL CORE; HORIZONTAL VORTICITY; MOIST CONVECTION; MOIST DYNAMICS; NONHYDROSTATIC MODEL; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION MODELS; SUBGRID SCALE; SUPER CELL;

LAKES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

BENCHMARKING; BOUNDARY CONDITION; CLIMATE MODELING; CYCLOGENESIS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; MODEL TEST; MOISTURE TRANSFER; NUMERICAL MODEL; STORM; SUPERCELL; TESTING METHOD; VORTICITY; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 80053500722     PISSN: 18956572     EISSN: 18957455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2478/s11600-011-0051-z     Document Type: Article

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