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Many atmospheric and oceanic phenomena occur in a localized region. When numerically simulating such phenomena it is not practical to include all of the surrounding fluid in the numerical domain. As a case in point, one would not simulate an isolated thunderstorm with a global atmospheric model just to avoid possible problems at the lateral boundaries of a limited domain. Moreover, in a fluid such as the atmosphere there is no distinct upper boundary, and most numerical representations of the atmosphere’s vertical structure terminate at some arbitrary level.
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Durran, D.R. (2001). Open Boundary Conditions: Fact and Fiction. In: Hodnett, P.F. (eds) IUTAM Symposium on Advances in Mathematical Modelling of Atmosphere and Ocean Dynamics. Fluid Mechanics and Its Applications, vol 61. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0792-4_1
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