Climatology of the Sierra Nevada mountain-wave events

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 136, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 757-768

  Grubišić, Vanda ^a   Billings, Brian J ^a  

^a DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLOUDS; LANDFORMS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; WEATHER SATELLITES;

AIRSTREAM; MOUNTAIN-WAVE CRESTS; MOUNTAIN-WAVE SEASONS;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

AMPLITUDE; ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATOLOGY; DATA QUALITY; LEE WAVE; SATELLITE IMAGERY; WAVELENGTH;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; SIERRA NEVADA [CALIFORNIA]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 44449083802     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007MWR1902.1     Document Type: Article

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