A nonhydrostatic unstructured-mesh soundproof model for simulation of internal gravity waves

Acta Geophysica

Volumn 59, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1109-1134

  Smolarkiewicz, Piotr K ^a   Szmelter, Joanna ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

atmospheric models; mountain waves; nonoscillatory forward in time schemes; soundproof equations; unstructured mesh models

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MODEL; MOUNTAIN WAVE; NONOSCILLATORY; SOUNDPROOF EQUATIONS; UNSTRUCTURED MESHES;

ASYMPTOTIC ANALYSIS; GRAVITY WAVES; MESH GENERATION; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; GRAVITY WAVE; NUMERICAL MODEL; STRATOSPHERE;

EID: 80053567306     PISSN: 18956572     EISSN: 18957455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2478/s11600-011-0043-z     Document Type: Article

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