Mesoscale model initialization of the fourier method for mountain waves

Abstract

A Fourier method is combined with a mesoscale model to simulate mountain waves. The mesoscale model describes the nonlinear low-level flow and predicts the emerging wave field above the mountain. This solution serves as the lower boundary condition for the Fourier method, which follows the waves upward to much higher altitudes and downward to the ground to examine parameterizations for the orography and the lower boundar.y condition. A high-drag case with a Froude number of 2/3 is presented. © 2008 American Meteorological Society.