Articles | Volume 17, issue 24
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-15037-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-15037-2017
Technical note
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19 Dec 2017
Technical note |  | 19 Dec 2017

Technical note: A noniterative approach to modelling moist thermodynamics

Nadya Moisseeva and Roland Stull

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This technical note presents simple noniterative approximations for two common thermodynamic relationships used for moist convection. The method offers roughly 2 orders of magnitude improvement in accuracy over the only existing noniterative solution. The proposed approach alleviates the need for costly numerical integration of saturated thermodynamic equations within numerical weather prediction models and in theoretical studies.
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