A Rocky Mountain storm part II: The forest blowdown over the West slope of the northern Colorado mountains-observations, analysis and modeling

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 662-674

  Meyers, Micheal P ^a   Snook, John S ^b   Wesley, Douglas A ^c   Poulos, Gregory S ^b  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Colorado Research Associates ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY CORPORATION FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; SNOW; STORMS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

WINTER STORMS;

CLIMATOLOGY;

COLD AIR; EXTREME EVENT; KINEMATICS; NUMERICAL MODEL; STORM; ZONAL WIND;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0141593879     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0434(2003)018<0662:ARMSPI>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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