The kinematic structure of a Wasatch Mountain winter storm during IPEX IOP3

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 133, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 521-542

  Cox, Justin A W ^a   Steenburgh, W James ^a   Kingsmill, David E ^b   Shafer, Jason C ^a   Colle, Brian A ^c   Bousquet, Olivier ^d   Smull, Bradley F ^e   Cai, Huaqing ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; HYDROMETERS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

DUAL-DOPPLER EFFECTS; INTENSIVE OBSERVING PERIOD (IOP); INTERMOUNTAIN PRECIPITATION EXPERIMENT (IPEX); KINEMATIC STRUCTURES;

STORMS;

KINEMATICS; MOUNTAIN; OROGRAPHIC EFFECT; STORM; WINTER;

NORTH AMERICA; ROCKY MOUNTAINS; UNITED STATES; WASATCH RANGE; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 14944372240     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-2875.1     Document Type: Article

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