Curl-Free pressure gradients over orography in a solution of the fully compressible euler equations with implicit treatment of acoustic and gravity waves

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 142, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 4439-4457

  Weller, Hilary ^a   Shahrokhi, Ava ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Nonhydrostatic models; Numerical analysis modeling; Vertical coordinates

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; EULER EQUATIONS; HYDRAULICS; PRESSURE GRADIENT;

ARBITRARY GRIDS; COMPRESSIBLE EULER EQUATIONS; HYDROSTATIC BALANCE; IMPLICIT TREATMENT; NONHYDROSTATIC MODEL; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS/MODELING; VERTICAL COMPONENT; VERTICAL COORDINATES;

GRAVITY WAVES;

ACOUSTIC WAVE; ATMOSPHERIC WAVE; GRAVITY WAVE; NUMERICAL MODEL; OROGRAPHY; PRESSURE GRADIENT; VORTICITY;

EID: 84916241453     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-14-00054.1     Document Type: Article

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