Sierra Nevada/Owens Valley Simulation
This page describes a numerical Simulation of waves over the Owen's Valley
generated by winds over the Sierra Nevada Mountain Range. Computational Domain
The layout of the of the simulation is shown in the figure below. Note
that the computational domain (thin white line) is rotated at
300 with respect to lines of constant latitude. 
Just the computational domain is shown in the figure below. In this plot, and those that follow the results are shown in the computational frame, which is rotated 300 with respect to earth longitude/latitude coordinates. The terrain is damped around the domain edges in order to achieve a fixed elevation around the perimeter.
The mesh is clustered in both horizontal directions in order to achieve 1000 x 1000 meter spacing over the Sierra Nevada mountain range. Very weak stretching is used so that the resolution is still ~1000x1000 m over the Owen's valley. The domain extends to an altitude of 96 km and uses a uniform vertical spacing of 1000 m. A total of 200 x 440 x 96 mesh points are used. Sponge layers are used on all external boundaries in order to absorb outgoing waves.
Wind and Thermodynamic Profiles
Wind and temperature profiles were taken from the climatology study of
Fleming et al. (1988) for February at 400 N. This is the same
data that was used by Woods and Smith (2011). The climatology does not
provide profiles of meridional wind so that component was simply set to
zero. Plots of the various profiles are shown below.
