Mid-Mountain Clouds at Whistler During the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics and Paralympics

Pure and Applied Geophysics

Volumn 171, Issue 1-2, 2014, Pages 157-183

  Mo, Ruping ^a   Joe, Paul ^a   Isaac, George A ^a   Gultepe, Ismail ^a   Rasmussen, Roy ^b   Milbrandt, Jason ^a   McTaggart Cowan, Ron ^a   Mailhot, Jocelyn ^a   Brugman, Melinda ^a   Smith, Trevor ^a   Scott, Bill ^a  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

alpine visibility; evaporative instability; Mid mountain clouds; orographic flow

Indexed keywords

DIURNAL TEMPERATURES; DOWNSLOPE FLOW; DRY LAYERS; FAIR WEATHER; LOCAL TOPOGRAPHY; OROGRAPHIC CLOUD; OROGRAPHIC FLOW; UPSLOPE FLOWS;

SUBSIDENCE;

LANDFORMS;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; CLOUD; EVAPORATION; OLYMPIC GAMES; OROGRAPHIC EFFECT; WESTERLY;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; COAST MOUNTAINS; WHISTLER MOUNTAIN;

EID: 84893184023     PISSN: 00334553     EISSN: 14209136     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00024-012-0540-2     Document Type: Article

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