Extending the numerical stability limit of terrain-following coordinate models over steep slopes

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 140, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 3722-3733

  Zängl, Günther ^a  

^a DEUTSCHER WETTERDIENST   (Germany)

Author keywords

Nonhydrostatic models; Vertical coordinates

Indexed keywords

CO-ORDINATE SYSTEM; COORDINATE MODELS; CORRECTION TERMS; DISCRETIZATIONS; FIRST DERIVATIVE; GRID POINTS; HYDROSTATIC APPROXIMATIONS; LAYER SPACINGS; LOWER BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; MESH SIZE; NONHYDROSTATIC MODEL; NUMERICAL INSTABILITY; SECOND DERIVATIVES; SECOND ORDERS; STABILITY PROBLEM; STEEP SLOPE; TARGET POINT; TAYLOR SERIES EXPANSIONS; THIN LAYERS; VERTICAL COORDINATES; VERTICAL GRIDS;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; LANDFORMS; PRESSURE GRADIENT;

CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; BOUNDARY CONDITION; HYDROSTATICS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRESSURE GRADIENT; RECONSTRUCTION; TERRAIN;

EID: 84871879748     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-12-00049.1     Document Type: Article

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