Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword to the French Edition
- Foreword to the English Edition
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Partial list of symbols
- 1 Half a century of numerical weather prediction
- 2 Weather prediction equations
- 3 Finite differences
- 4 Spectral methods
- 5 The effects of discretization
- 6 Barotropic models
- 7 Baroclinic model equations
- 8 Some baroclinic models
- 9 Physical parameterizations
- 10 Operational forecasting
- Appendix A Examples of nonhydrostatic models
- Further reading
- References
- Index
8 - Some baroclinic models
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword to the French Edition
- Foreword to the English Edition
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Partial list of symbols
- 1 Half a century of numerical weather prediction
- 2 Weather prediction equations
- 3 Finite differences
- 4 Spectral methods
- 5 The effects of discretization
- 6 Barotropic models
- 7 Baroclinic model equations
- 8 Some baroclinic models
- 9 Physical parameterizations
- 10 Operational forecasting
- Appendix A Examples of nonhydrostatic models
- Further reading
- References
- Index
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- Fundamentals of Numerical Weather Prediction , pp. 157 - 191Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011