Foehn winds that produced large temperature differences near the southern Appalachian Mountains

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 145-159

  Gaffin, David M ^a  

^a National Weather Service   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; GLOBAL WARMING; LANDFORMS; WIND;

AMPLITUDE MOUNTAIN WAVE FORMATION; COMPOSITE SOUNDINGS; FOEHN WIND;

METEOROLOGY;

AIR MASS; AIR TEMPERATURE; COLD FRONT; DEW POINT; FOEHN; LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY; WIND PROFILE;

APPALACHIANS; MISSISSIPPI VALLEY; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33947239368     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/WAF970.1     Document Type: Article

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