Observing system experiments with the DMI HIRLAM Optimum Interpolation analysis/three-dimensional variational analysis and forecasting system

Aidan McDonald

January 2001

Abstract

In two previous technical reports (McDonald 1999, McDonald 2000, hereinafter call M1 and M2 respectively) we examined the feasibility of constructing well-posed boundary conditions for the one-dimensional advection/adjustment equation, paying particular attention to the problem associated with semi-Lagrangian discretizations, that of the departure point being located outside the boundary. In this technical note we extend some of the solutions developed in M1 and M2 to the two dimensional advection/adjustment system: the shallow water equations.

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