On  vertical differencing in the [sigma] system

Brown, John Atkins, 1930

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On vertical differencing in the [sigma] system

Published Date:

1974

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Office note (National Meteorological Center (U.S.)) ; 92

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Brown, John Atkins, 1930

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National Meteorological Center (U.S.)

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"The following deals with vertical differencing in the [sigma]-system. Certain features of the continuous fluid are retained in the vertical differencing system presented here. In particular, we will deal with the conservation of mass, total energy, and the first and second moments of the potential temperature. Throughout the derivation we have ignored time and horizontal spatial truncation errors. The derivation follows that of Arakawa, but is more directly applicable to the modeling practices in use at the NMC"--Introduction.

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National Weather Service (NWS)

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United States

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