Understanding satellite-observed mountain-wave signatures using high-resolution numerical model data

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 76-86

  Feltz, Wayne F ^a,b   Bedka, K M ^a   Otkin, J A ^a   Greenwald, T ^a   Ackerman, S A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES; COLD FRONT; COLORADO FRONT RANGE; COMPLEX TOPOGRAPHIES; DIFFERENT HEIGHTS; HIGH RESOLUTION; INTEGRATED WATER VAPORS; INTERFERENCE PATTERNS; MESOSCALE FEATURES; MESOSCALE VARIABILITY; MODEL DATA; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; MOUNTAIN RANGES; MOUNTAIN WAVE; NUMERICAL MODELS; PILOT REPORTS; QUARTER-WAVELENGTH; RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODEL; ROCKY MOUNTAINS; SATELLITE DATA; SIMULATED DATA; VERTICAL MOTIONS; WATER VAPOR CHANNELS; WATER VAPOR IMAGERY; WAVE PATTERNS; WAVE SIGNATURES; WAVE TRAIN; WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING MODELS; WEIGHTING FUNCTIONS; WIND FIELD;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; ATMOSPHERICS; LANDFORMS; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TEMPERATURE; WATER CONTENT; WEATHER FORECASTING;

WATER VAPOR;

BOUNDARY LAYER; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TROPOSPHERE; TURBULENCE; WATER VAPOR; WEATHER FORECASTING;

COLORADO; NORTH AMERICA; ROCKY MOUNTAINS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 65849291541     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008WAF2222127.1     Document Type: Article

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