On the role of sloping terrain in the forcing of the Great Plains low-level jet

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 67, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 2690-2699

  Parish, Thomas R ^a   Oolman, Larry D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

Diurnal effects; Jets; Nonhydrostatic models; Summer warm season; Topographic effects

Indexed keywords

BACKGROUND WINDS; CLOCKWISE ROTATION; DIURNAL EFFECTS; DIURNAL OSCILLATIONS; DIURNAL WIND; EQUATION SYSTEMS; GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; GEOSTROPHIC WINDS; HORIZONTAL PRESSURE; HORIZONTAL RESOLUTION; INERTIAL OSCILLATION; LOW LEVEL JET; MAXIMUM FREQUENCY; NONHYDROSTATIC MESOSCALE MODELS; NONHYDROSTATIC MODEL; OUT OF PHASE; SLOPING TERRAINS; SOUTHERN GREAT PLAINS; SUMMER/WARM SEASON; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECTS; UNBALANCED COMPONENT; WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING; WESTERN BOUNDARY CURRENTS;

FRICTION; HEATING; LANDFORMS;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

AGEOSTROPHIC FLOW; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; DIURNAL VARIATION; JET FLOW; OSCILLATION; SEASONALITY; SUMMER; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT; WESTERN BOUNDARY CURRENT; WIND VELOCITY;

GREAT PLAINS;

EID: 77958597034     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JAS3368.1     Document Type: Article

References (20)

1. Blackadar, A. K., 1957: Boundary-layer wind maxima and their significance for the growth of nocturnal inversions. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 38, 283-290.
2. Bonner, W. D., 1968: Climatology of the low-level jet. Mon. Wea. Rev., 96, 833-850.
3. Bonner, W. D., and J. Paegle, 1970: Diurnal variations in boundary layer winds over the south-central United States in summer. Mon. Wea. Rev., 98, 735-744.
4. Fast, J. D., and M. D. McCorcle, 1990: A two-dimensional numerical sensitivity study of the Great Plains low-level jet. Mon. Wea. Rev., 118, 151-163.
5. Hess, S. L., 1959: Introduction to Theoretical Meteorology. Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 362 pp.
6. Hoecker, W. H., 1963: Three southerly low-level jet systems delineated by the Weather Bureau special pibal network of 1961. Mon. Wea. Rev., 91, 573-582.
7. Holton, J. R., 1967: The diurnal boundary layer wind oscillation above sloping terrain. Tellus, 19, 199-205.
8. Jiang, X., N.-C. Lau, I. M. Held, and J. J. Ploshay, 2007: Mechanisms of the Great Plains low-level jet as simulated in an AGCM. J. Atmos. Sci., 64, 532-547.
9. Lettau, H., and B. Davidson, 1957: Exploring the Atmosphere's First Mile. Vol. 2. Pergamon Press, 202 pp.
10. Olson, J. B., B. A. Colle, N. A. Bond, and N. Winstead, 2007: A comparison of two coastal barrier jet events along the southeast Alaskan coast during the SARJET field experiment. Mon. Wea. Rev., 135, 2973-2994; Corrigendum, 135, 3642-3663.
11. Pan, Z., M. Segal, and R. W. Arritt, 2004: Role of topography in forcing low-level jets in the central United States during the 1993 flood-altered terrain simulations. Mon. Wea. Rev., 132, 396-403.
12. Parish, T. R., A. R. Rodi, and R. D. Clark, 1988:Acase study of the summertime Great Plains low-level jet. Mon. Wea. Rev., 116, 94-105.
13. Pierrehumbert, R. T., and B. Wyman, 1985: Upstream effects of mesoscale mountains. J. Atmos. Sci., 42, 977-1003.
14. Schwerdtfeger, W., 1975: The effect of the Antarctic Peninsula on the temperature regime of the Weddell Sea. Mon. Wea. Rev., 103, 45-51.
15. Ting, M., and H. Wang, 2006: The role of the North American topography on the maintenance of the Great Plains summer low-level jet. J. Atmos. Sci., 63, 1056-1068.
16. Uccellini, L. W., 1980: On the role of upper tropospheric jet streaks and leeside cyclogenesis in the development of low-level jets in the Great Plains. Mon. Wea. Rev., 108, 1689-1696.
17. Wexler, H., 1961: A boundary-layer interpretation of the low-level jet. Tellus, 13, 368-378.
18. Whiteman, C. D., X. Bian, and S. Zhong, 1997: Low-level jet climatology from enhanced rawinsonde observations at a site in the southern Great Plains. J. Appl. Meteor., 36, 1363-1376.
19. Zemba, J., and C. A. Friehe, 1987: The marine atmospheric boundary layer jet in the Coastal Ocean Dynamics Experiment. J. Geophys. Res., 92 (C2), 1489-1496.
20. Zhong, S., J. Fast, and X. Bian, 1996: A case study of the Great Plains low-level jet using wind profiler network data and a high-resolution mesoscale model. Mon. Wea. Rev., 124, 785-806.