The influence of terrain-induced circulations on wintertime temperature and snow level in the Washington Cascades

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 208-227

  Steenburgh, W James ^a   Mass, Clifford F ^b   Ferguson, Sue A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c PACIFIC NORTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; BOUNDARY LAYERS; CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SNOWFALL MEASUREMENT; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION;

ADIABATIC COOLING; MESOSCALE CLIMATE DISTRIBUTION; RAPID WARMING EPISODES;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; SNOW; TEMPERATURE; TERRAIN;

USA, WASHINGTON CASCADES;

EID: 0031153952     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0434(1997)012<0208:TIOTIC>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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