Connecting Subseasonal movements of the winter mean ridge in western North America to inversion climatology in cache valley, Utah

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 617-627

  Wang, Shih Yu ^a   Gillies, Robert R ^a   Martin, Randy ^a,b   Davies, Robert E ^a   Booth, Marty R ^a  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Utah State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmosphere land interaction; Inversions; Large scale motions; Mesoscale models; Mesoscale processes

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE-LAND INTERACTION; INVERSIONS; LARGE-SCALE MOTIONS; MESOSCALE MODEL; MESOSCALE PROCESS;

OCEAN CURRENTS;

CLIMATOLOGY;

AERODYNAMICS; CLIMATOLOGY; DOWNSCALING; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; MESOSCALE MOTION; PARTICULATE FLUX; PARTICULATE MATTER; ROSSBY WAVE; ZONAL FLOW; ZONAL WIND;

CACHE VALLEY [UTAH]; LOGAN; UNITED STATES; UTAH;

EID: 84861701488     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAMC-D-11-0101.1     Document Type: Article

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