The Dynamical Influence of Orography on the Large-Scale Motion of the Atmosphere.

Abstract In an attempt to understand the dynamical influence of the earth's orography upon the large-scale motion of the atmosphere, the system of “shallow water” equations on the rotating earth is integrated numerically. The model consists of an incompressible, homogeneous, hydrostatic and inviscid fluid. The “beta-plane” approximation is used to simplify the model. The fluid is confined in a channel bounded on the north and south by two parallel “walls” extending in the cast-west direction. Periodicity is the boundary condition applied at the east and west boundaries to simulate the cyclic continuity of the zone with longitude. A circular obstacle of parabolic shape is placed at the bottom in the middle of the channel. The steady-state solutions in the absence of the obstacle are used as the initial conditions of the problem. Five different cases are investigated in detail. All computations were performed for an interval of 20 days (some cases were run longer) with a time step of 6 minutes. The followin...

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