An observational and numerical study of a cold front interacting with the olympic mountains during COAST IOP5

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 127, Issue 6 II, 1999, Pages 1310-1334

  Colle, Brian A ^a,b   Mass, Clifford F ^a   Smull, Bradley F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLD FRONT; DIABATIC PROCESS; FRONTAL FEATURE; OROGRAPHIC EFFECT; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032716582     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(1999)127<1310:aoanso>2.0.co;2     Document Type: Article

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