Numerical simulation of idealized front motion in neutral and stratified atmosphere with a hyperbolic system of equations

M. S. Yudin

doi:10.1117/12.2288168

30 November 2017 Numerical simulation of idealized front motion in neutral and stratified atmosphere with a hyperbolic system of equations

M. S. Yudin

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Proceedings Volume 10466, 23rd International Symposium on Atmospheric and Ocean Optics: Atmospheric Physics; 104666O (2017) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2288168
Event: XXIII International Symposium, Atmospheric and Ocean Optics, Atmospheric Physics, 2017, Irkutsk, Russian Federation

Abstract

In the present paper, stratification effects on surface pressure in the propagation of an atmospheric gravity current (cold front) over flat terrain are estimated with a non-hydrostatic finite-difference model of atmospheric dynamics. Artificial compressibility is introduced into the model in order to make its equations hyperbolic. For comparison with available simulation data, the physical processes under study are assumed to be adiabatic. The influence of orography is also eliminated. The front surface is explicitly described by a special equation. A time filter is used to suppress the non-physical oscillations. The results of simulations of surface pressure under neutral and stable stratification are presented. Under stable stratification the front moves faster and shows an abrupt pressure jump at the point of observation. This fact is in accordance with observations and the present-day theory of atmospheric fronts.

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M. S. Yudin "Numerical simulation of idealized front motion in neutral and stratified atmosphere with a hyperbolic system of equations", Proc. SPIE 10466, 23rd International Symposium on Atmospheric and Ocean Optics: Atmospheric Physics, 104666O (30 November 2017); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2288168

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