The climatology of small-scale orographic precipitation over the olympic mountains: Patterns and processes

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 134, Issue 633 B, 2008, Pages 817-839

  Minder, Justin R ^a   Durran, Dale R ^a   Roe, Gerard H ^a   Anders, Alison M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

MM5; Mountain waves

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; METEOROLOGY; RAIN; STORMS; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE;

ANNUAL MEAN; CASE-STUDIES; CLOUD WATER; COMPOSITE ANALYSIS; CONVECTIVE CELLS; FREEZING LEVELS; FUNDAMENTAL CHANGES; HIGH RESOLUTIONS; MESOSCALE MODEL; MM5; MOUNTAIN RANGES; MOUNTAIN WAVES; NATURAL HAZARDS; OROGRAPHIC PRECIPITATION; PREVAILING WINDS; RAINFALL RATES; RAINY SEASONS; STABLE FLOWS; STORM EVENTS; TIME-SCALES; WASHINGTON STATE; ANNUAL MEANS; CLOUD WATERS; MESOSCALE MODELS; OLYMPICS; OROGRAPHIC PRECIPITATIONS; SCALE PATTERNS; WASHINGTON STATES;

LANDFORMS;

CLOUD WATER; CONDENSATION; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; MOUNTAIN REGION; NATURAL HAZARD; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; OROGRAPHY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL; SEASONAL VARIATION; STORM; AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; OROGRAPHIC EFFECT; WIND;

COAST RANGES; NORTH AMERICA; OLYMPIC MOUNTAINS; UNITED STATES; WASHINGTON [UNITED STATES];

EID: 48649091996     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.258     Document Type: Article

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