ORIG I NAL AR TI CLE 1 2 The effect of a stable boundary layer on orographic 3 gravity wave drag 4 H. V. Turner 1 | M. A. C. Teixeira 1 | J. Methven 1 5 1 Department of Meteorology, University of Reading, Reading, UK Correspondence Miguel A. C. Teixeira, Department of Meteorology, University of Reading, Earley Gate, PO Box 243, Reading RG6 6BB, UK Email: m.a.teixeira@reading.ac.uk Funding information NERC under PhD studentship NE/L002566/1 Numerical simulations are carried out using the WRF model to 6 1