The hydrostatic Lagrangian approach to the compressible primitive equations

This article develops the hydrostatic Lagrangian approach to the compressible primitive equations. A fundamental aspect in the analysis is the investigation of the compressible hydrostatic Lamé and Stokes operators. Local strong well-posedness for large data and global strong well-posedness for small data are established under various assumptions on the pressure law, both in the presence and absence of gravity.