Atmospheric scale interaction on wintertime intermountain west low-level inversions

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1196-1210

  Gillies, Robert R ^a   Wang, Shih Yu ^a   Booth, Marty R ^a  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Inversions; Winter cool season

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH; INTRASEASONAL MODES; INTRASEASONAL VARIABILITY; MEDIUM RANGE; METEOROLOGICAL VARIABLES; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION MODELS; PACIFIC NORTHWEST; PARTICULATE MATTER; REANALYSIS; SALT LAKE CITY; SCALE INTERACTIONS; STATION DATA; WINTER CIRCULATION;

AIR QUALITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARTICULATE MATTER; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY; WEATHER FORECASTING; WINTER;

SALT LAKE CITY; UNITED STATES; UTAH;

EID: 77955575942     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010WAF2222380.1     Document Type: Article

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