Nonhydrostatic models
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Illustrations
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2-D thermal bubble in insentropic atmosphere at 0 minutes, 6 minutes, 12 minutes, 18 minutes, and 21 minutes. (Chen 1998) |
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Streamline and virtual potential temperature at surface and terrain over White Sands. |
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3 hour-model simulated wind, potential temperature, vapor and liquid water for free-surface. (Hsu and Sun 2002, Chen and Sun 2002) |
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Development of cloud bands and cellular convection over a cold air outbreak: The sea surface temperature, cloud distribution, and vertical velocity after 2 hours of simulation. (Hsu et al. 2004) |
Publications
Hsu, W. R., J. P. Hou, C. C. Wu, and W. Y. Sun, 2004: Large-eddy simulation of cloud streets over the east China sea during cold-air outbreak events. 16th Symposium on Boundary Layer and Turbulence; August 9-13, 2004; Portland, Maine.
Hsu, W. R., C. C. Wu, and W. Y. Sun, 2003: A three-dimensional simulation of moist airflow over an isolated mountain. International conference on Alpine meteorology and the Mesoscale Alpine Programme meeting 2003; May 19–23, 2003; Brig, Switzerland.
Sun, W. Y. and W. R. Hsu, 2003: Effect of Surface Condition on Downslope Wind and Mountain waves. International conference on Alpine meteorology and the Mesoscale Alpine Programme meeting 2003; May 19–23, 2003; Brig, Switzerland.
Haines, P. A., D. J. Grove, W. Y. Sun, W.-R. Hsu, and S. C. Tcheng, 2003: High resolution results and scalability of numerical modeling of wind flow at white sand missile range. BACIMO (DOD atmospheric science and effects) conference; September 2003; Monterey, California.
Chen, S. H., and W. Y. Sun, 2002: The applications of the multigrid method and a flexible hybrid coordinate in a nonhydrostatic model. Mon. Wea. Rev. 129, 2660–2676.
Hsu, W.-R, C.-C. Wu, and W. Y. Sun, 2002: A numerical study of a sea-breeze front and its interaction with the convective boundary layer over land during CAPE. The 27th General Assembly of the European Geophysical Society; April 21–26, 2002; Nice, France.
Hsu, W.-R. and W. Y. Sun, 2001: A time-split, forward-backward numerical model for solving a nonhydrostatic and compressible system of equations. Tellus 53A, 279–299.
Doyle, J. D., D. R. Durran, C. Chen, M. Georelin, V. Grubisic, W. R. Hsu, C. Y. Huang, D. landau, Y. L. Lin, G. S. Poulos, W. Y. Sun, D. B. Weber, M. G. Wurtele, and M. Xue, 2000: An intercomparison of model predicted wave breaking for the 11 January 1972 Boulder windstorm. Mon. Wea. Rev. 128, 901–914.
Hsu, W. R., W. Y. Sun, S. C. Tcheng, and H. Y. Chang, 2000: Parallel of the NTU-Purdue Nonhydrostatic numerical model: Simulation of the 11 January 1972 Boulder windstorm. The Seventh National Computational Fluid Dynamics Conference; August 2000; Kenting, Taiwan.