Toward multiscale simulation of moist flows with soundproof equations

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 70, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 3995-4011

  Kurowski, Marcin J ^a,b   Grabowski, Wojciech W ^a   Smolarkiewicz, Piotr K ^c  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF METEOROLOGY AND WATER MANAGEMENT   (Poland)

^c EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTH ATMOSPHERE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; HYDROSTATIC COMPONENTS; MULTI-SCALE SIMULATION; PRESSURE PERTURBATION; PRESSURE VARIATIONS; SMALL-SCALE MODELING; STRATIFIED ENVIRONMENTS; TEMPERATURE VARIATION;

THERMODYNAMICS;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; HYDROSTATICS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MESOSCALE MOTION; MOISTURE TRANSFER; NUMERICAL MODEL; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; THERMODYNAMICS; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT;

EID: 84892467699     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: 15200469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAS-D-13-024.1     Document Type: Article

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