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An Improved Weak Pressure Gradient Scheme for Single-Column Modeling

Jacob P. Edman 1 and David M. Romps 1
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  • 1 Department of Earth and Planetary Science, University of California, Berkeley, and Earth Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California
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01 Jul 2014
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https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-13-0327.1
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2415–2429
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Abstract

A new formulation of the weak pressure gradient approximation (WPG) is introduced for parameterizing large-scale dynamics in limited-domain atmospheric models. This new WPG is developed in the context of the one-dimensional, linearized, damped, shallow-water equations and then extended to Boussinesq and compressible fluids. Unlike previous supradomain-scale parameterizations, this formulation of WPG correctly reproduces both steady-state solutions and first baroclinic gravity waves. In so doing, this scheme eliminates the undesirable gravity wave resonance in previous versions of WPG. In addition, this scheme can be extended to accurately model the emission of gravity waves with arbitrary vertical wavenumber.

Corresponding author address: Jacob P. Edman, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, 449 McCone Hall, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720. E-mail: jedman@berkeley.edu

Abstract

A new formulation of the weak pressure gradient approximation (WPG) is introduced for parameterizing large-scale dynamics in limited-domain atmospheric models. This new WPG is developed in the context of the one-dimensional, linearized, damped, shallow-water equations and then extended to Boussinesq and compressible fluids. Unlike previous supradomain-scale parameterizations, this formulation of WPG correctly reproduces both steady-state solutions and first baroclinic gravity waves. In so doing, this scheme eliminates the undesirable gravity wave resonance in previous versions of WPG. In addition, this scheme can be extended to accurately model the emission of gravity waves with arbitrary vertical wavenumber.

Corresponding author address: Jacob P. Edman, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, 449 McCone Hall, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720. E-mail: jedman@berkeley.edu
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