Topographic distortion of a cold front over the Snake River Plain and Central Idaho Mountains

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 301-314

  Steenburgh, W J ^a   Blazek, T R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRESSURE EFFECTS; RIVERS; THERMAL EFFECTS; WIND EFFECTS;

TOPOGRAPHIC DISTORTION;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

COLD FRONT; COMPLEX TERRAIN; PRESSURE GRADIENT; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT;

IDAHO; SNAKE RIVER; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0035354817     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0434(2001)016<0301:TDOACF>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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