A consistent framework for discrete integrations of soundproof and compressible PDEs of atmospheric dynamics

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 263, Issue , 2014, Pages 185-205

  Smolarkiewicz, Piotr K ^a   Kühnlein, Christian ^a   Wedi, Nils P ^a  

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

Author keywords

Anelastic equations; Atmospheric models; Compressible low Mach number flows; Non oscillatory forward in time schemes; Planetary weather; Stratospheric gravity waves

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW; INTEGRATION; MACH NUMBER; REYNOLDS NUMBER;

ANELASTIC EQUATION; ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; COMPRESSIBLE LOW MACH NUMBER FLOW; CONSISTENT INTEGRATIONS; LOW-MACH-NUMBER FLOW; NON-OSCILLATORY FORWARD IN TIME; NON-OSCILLATORY FORWARD-IN-TIME SCHEME; PLANETARY WEATHER; STRATOSPHERIC GRAVITY WAVE;

GRAVITY WAVES;

EID: 84893358752     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2014.01.031     Document Type: Article

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