Abstract: During September and October of 1984 the Department of Energy's Atmospheric Studies in Complex Terrain program conducted an intensive field study in the Brush Creek Valley of western Colorado. The overall objective of the ...

Abstract: Wind and temperature data collected by an instrumented tethered balloon and a Doppler lidar in a deep valley are used to investigate the mean properties of the nocturnal drainage flow down the valley on four nights when ...

Abstract: During the late summer of 1985 a field experiment was conducted to investigate mountaintop winds over a broad area of the Rocky Mountains extending from south central Wyoming through northern New Mexico. The principal ...