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Pressure coordinate (\(p\)-coordinate) is commonly used in modeling atmospheric dynamics. When \(p\)-coordinate is used with the acoustically filtered nonhydrostatic (NH) model, an incontestable advantage is found in treating NH processes of shorter mesoscale \((10^2-10^3 m)\), hydrostatic processes of longer mesoscale \((10^4-10^5 m)\), and the synoptic scale \((10^6-10^7 m)\) in a unified formalism. This paper introduce a different acoustically filtered NH model which is based on the complete set of the NH equations in \(p\)-coordinates. The NH \(p\)-coordinate equations are linearized, and a set of coupled wave equations is obtained for the nondimensional isobaric height and temperature. The significance of the wave equations is that they have a Lagrangian function. Advantages of the Lagrangian lie not only in that it assures the energy conservation, but also in getting an energy conserving filtered model. Acoustic filtering is carried out in the limit \(c_a\to\infty\), where \(c_a\) is the sound speed. Inclusion of the advective processes is achieved by modeling them as quasi-incompressible processes in the \(p\)-space. Thus the model treats linear processes as compressible in the \(p\)-space, while nonlinear processes are approximated as incompressible. The filtered model maintains all slow processes, including buoyancy waves, and can be used to describe processes from local turbulence to planetary waves.