A two-level,quasi-geostrophic long-wave model based on spherical coordinates was developed with theexplicit part belonging to a low-order model.However,it includes not only diabatic heating,Ekman fric-tion and mountain distribution,but also parameterized forcing effects of transfer properties of transienteddies.Experiment results showed that,due to the introduction of the parameterization of transfer propertiesof transient eddies,remarkable improvements on characters of low-order model had been obtained.Inaddition to its economization in calculation and conciseness in physics as in a low-order model,the long-wave model was shown to describe the energetics and angular momentum balance of the atmosphere much morereasonably,and to present the features of zonal mean westerlies and stationary waves much more correctlythan the corresponding low-order model.This kind of long-wave model was therefore regarded as suitablefor theoretical research and numerical modelling of some aspects of the general circulation of the atmosphere.
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