A SEMIIMPLICIT SEMI-LAGRANGIAN FULLY COMPRESSIBLE REGIONAL FORECAST MODEL

The semi-implicit algorithm, originally developed by Robert for an economical integration of the primitive equations in large-scale models of the atmosphere, is here generalized in order to integrate the fully compressible, nonhydrostatic equations. We show that there is little computational overhead associated with the integration of the full, and hence presumably more correct, set of equations that do not invoke the hydrostatic assumption to exclude the high frequency, vertically propagating acoustic modes. -Authors