A back-trajectory and air mass climatology for the Northern Shenandoah Valley, USA

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 569-581

  Hondula, David M ^a   Sitka, Luke ^a   Davis, Robert E ^a   Knight, David B ^a   Gawtry, Stephen D ^a   Deaton, Michael L ^b   Lee, Temple R ^a   Normile, Caroline P ^a   Stenger, Philip J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Air mass; Back trajectory; Hysplit; Shenandoah valley; Spatial synoptic classification

Indexed keywords

AIR FLOW; AIR MASS; AIR MASS CLASSIFICATION; AIR PARCELS; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; LAGRANGIAN; MOISTURE CONDITIONS; POLLUTANT CONCENTRATION; SINGLE PARTICLE; SOURCE REGION; SPATIAL SYNOPTIC CLASSIFICATION; STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE; SYNOPTIC CLASSIFICATION; TRAJECTORY METHOD; WEST VIRGINIA;

AIR QUALITY; CLIMATE MODELS; CLIMATOLOGY; FLOW PATTERNS; LANDFORMS;

TRAJECTORIES;

AIR MASS; CLIMATE CLASSIFICATION; CLIMATOLOGY; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY; THERMODYNAMICS; TRAJECTORY;

SHENANDOAH VALLEY; UNITED STATES; VIRGINIA;

EID: 77950106089     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.1896     Document Type: Article

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