Synoptic-scale environments conducive to orographic impacts on cold-season surface wind regimes at Montreal, Quebec

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 598-616

  Razy, Alissa ^a,b   Milrad, Shawn M ^a   Atallah, Eyad H ^a   Gyakum, John R ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Israel Ministry of Transport and Road Safety   (Israel)

Author keywords

Channel flows; Forecasting; North America; Surface observations; Synoptic climatology; Wind

Indexed keywords

CHAMPLAIN VALLEY; COLD AIR; COLD SEASON; FOUR-GROUP; NEAR SURFACE TEMPERATURE; NEAR-SURFACE; NORTH AMERICA; PRESSURE-DRIVEN; QUEBEC , CANADA; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; ST. LAWRENCE RIVER; SURFACE CYCLONE; SURFACE OBSERVATION; SURFACE WINDS; SYNOPTIC CLIMATOLOGY; SYNOPTIC TYPING; TEMPERATURE STRUCTURE; THERMALLY INDUCED; WEATHER IMPACT; WIND DIRECTIONS; WIND EVENTS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CHANNEL FLOW; CLIMATOLOGY; FORECASTING; LANDFORMS; SEA LEVEL; WIND;

STORMS;

ADVECTION; FORECASTING METHOD; GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; OROGRAPHIC EFFECT; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY; TROPOSPHERE; WIND DIRECTION; WIND FIELD; WIND VELOCITY;

CANADA; QUEBEC [CANADA]; SAINT LAWRENCE VALLEY;

EID: 84861683128     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAMC-D-11-0142.1     Document Type: Article

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