Abstract
Abstract Estimation of accuracy of different high-resolution, sound-filtered, pressure-coordinate models is carried out by modeling their response to orographic forcing. Evaluated models are the elastic nonhydrostatic model (EFM), the anelastic nonhydrostatic model (AEM), and the hydrostatic primitive equation model (HSM). These models are compared to the exact, nonfiltered, nonhydrostatic, pressure-coordinate dynamics (ExM). All model equations are linearized, a wave equation for vertical displacements of air particles is derived, and exact analytical stationary solutions for each model are compared for uniform flow over given smooth orography (bell-shaped mountain). These linear solutions reveal that compressible (ExM, EFM) and incompressible (AEM, HSM) models are different at long horizontal scales l ∼ 1000 km. Differences are especially large in the vertical velocity field (up to 100%) at the medium and upper levels of the atmosphere, where incompressible models give systematic reductions of wave ampl...
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