Tuesday, 31 July 2001
An upper boundary condition for nonhydrostatic models absorbing both gravity and acoustic waves
We present a formulation of an upper boundary condition for non-hydrostatic
models that, by employing a second-order recursive filter in time to record
a `memory' of the recent changes to the presssure perturbation and vertical
velocity, enables an appropriate linear combination of these variables to be
constrained so as to minimize the spurious reflection of gravity waves at a
range of horizontal and vertical wavelengths and to at least partially absorb
vertically-propagating acoustic waves. We will show preliminary results which
illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed method in simulations
involving propagating and topographically forced waves under various conditions
of vertical stratification.
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