A blended soundproof-to-compressible numerical model for small- to mesoscale atmospheric dynamics

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 142, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 4416-4438

  Benacchio, Tommaso ^a   O'Neill, Warren P ^a   Klein, Rupert ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Buoyancy; Differential equations; Inertia gravity waves; Model comparison; Nonlinear dynamics; Numerical analysis modeling

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; BENCHMARKING; BUOYANCY; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; DYNAMICS; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS;

INERTIA-GRAVITY WAVES; MODEL COMPARISON; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS/MODELING; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; QUADRATIC CONVERGENCE; SEMI-IMPLICIT SCHEME; THERMODYNAMIC CONSISTENCY; TRANSITION MECHANISM;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; BUOYANCY; GRAVITY WAVE; INERTIA; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; NONLINEAR WAVE; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 84916236352     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-13-00384.1     Document Type: Article

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