Equations of atmospheric motion in non-Eulerian vertical coordinates: Vector-invariant form and quasi-Hamiltonian formulation

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 142, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 3860-3880

  Dubos, Thomas ^a   Tort, Marine ^a  

^a ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE   (France)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOTIONS; VECTOR-INVARIANT FORM; VERTICAL COORDINATES;

ATMOSPHERIC MOTION; COORDINATE; EQUATION; EULERIAN ANALYSIS; GEOMETRY; HYDROSTATICS; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; VECTOR;

EID: 84907425832     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-14-00069.1     Document Type: Article

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