Numerical Simulation of the Life Cycle of a Persistent Wintertime Inversion over Salt Lake City

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 148, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 399-418

  Wei, Linbo ^a,b   Pu, Zhaoxia ^b   Wang, Shigong ^a  

^a LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Inversions; Mountain valley; Numerical simulation; Salt Lake City; Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF)

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED RESEARCHES; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; HIGH-PRESSURE RIDGES; INVERSIONS; MOUNTAIN-VALLEY; SALT LAKE CITY; WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING; WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING MODELS;

COLD EFFECTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HIGH PRESSURE EFFECTS; LAKES; LANDFORMS; NUMERICAL MODELS; RADIATION EFFECTS; RESEARCH; TROPOSPHERE;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

AIR TEMPERATURE; COMPLEX TERRAIN; DATA INVERSION; LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND DIRECTION; WIND VELOCITY; WINTER;

SALT LAKE CITY; UNITED STATES; UTAH;

EID: 84880509560     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10546-013-9821-2     Document Type: Article

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