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Accounting for non‐uniform static stability in orographic drag parametrization
Author(s) -
Vosper S. B.,
Wells H.,
Brown A. R.
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
quarterly journal of the royal meteorological society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.744
H-Index - 143
eISSN - 1477-870X
pISSN - 0035-9009
DOI - 10.1002/qj.407
Subject(s) - drag , parametrization (atmospheric modeling) , orographic lift , stability (learning theory) , flow (mathematics) , meteorology , blocking (statistics) , mathematics , mechanics , environmental science , physics , computer science , statistics , precipitation , quantum mechanics , machine learning , radiative transfer
The extent to which the drag due to flow blocking by mountains is affected by height variations in the static stability is examined using a series of numerical simulations. The results are used to investigate how best to estimate the depth‐averaged upwind static stability for the purposes of parametrizing the drag. © Crown Copyright 2009. Reproduced with the permission of HMSO. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.