Discontinuous Fronts as Exact Solutions to Precipitating Quasi-geostrophic Equations

DOI10.1137/18M119478XzbMath1421.35370MaRDI QIDQ5231221

Samuel N. Stechmann, Alfredo N. Wetzel, Leslie M. Smith

Publication date: 26 August 2019

Published in: SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1137/18m119478x

zbMATH Keywords

jump conditions; shocks; geophysical fluid dynamics; rainfall; water vapor; phase changes; cloud latent heating; cold fronts; warm fronts

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

35L67: Shocks and singularities for hyperbolic equations

76L05: Shock waves and blast waves in fluid mechanics

76U05: General theory of rotating fluids

86A10: Meteorology and atmospheric physics

35C05: Solutions to PDEs in closed form

35C07: Traveling wave solutions

35Q86: PDEs in connection with geophysics

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