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RISPseudovertical Temperature Profiles in a Broad Valley from Lines of Temperature Sensors on Sidewalls
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: seudovertical temperature ?soundings? from lines of inexpensive temperature sensors on the sidewalls of Utah?s Salt Lake valley are compared with contemporaneous radiosonde soundings from the north, open end of the valley. ...
Topographic Effects on the Surface Radiation Balance in and around Arizona’s Meteor Crater
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: The individual components of the slope-parallel surface radiation balance were measured in and around Arizona?s Meteor Crater to investigate the effects of topography on the radiation balance. The crater basin has a diameter ...
Multiscale Characteristics of Surface Winds in an Area of Complex Terrain in Northwest Utah
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: limatological features of the surface wind on diurnal and seasonal time scales over a 17-yr period in an area of complex terrain at Dugway Proving Ground in northwestern Utah are analyzed, and potential synoptic-scale, ...
Evening Temperature Rises on Valley Floors and Slopes: Their Causes and Their Relationship to the Thermally Driven Wind System
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: At slope and valley floor sites in the Owens Valley of California, the late afternoon near-surface air temperature decline is often followed by a temporary temperature rise before the expected nighttime cooling resumes. ...
Observations of Thermally Driven Wind Jets at the Exit of Weber Canyon, Utah
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: hermally driven valley-exit jets were investigated at Utah?s Weber Canyon, a main tributary of the Great Salt Lake basin. An intensive measurement campaign during July?September 2010 supplemented longer-term measurements ...
A Systematic Study of Longwave Radiative Heating and Cooling within Valleys and Basins Using a Three-Dimensional Radiative Transfer Model
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: he Monte Carlo code for the physically correct tracing of photons in cloudy atmospheres (MYSTIC) three-dimensional radiative transfer model was used in a parametric study to determine the strength of longwave radiative ...
Diurnal Cycle of Thermally Driven Cross-Basin Winds in Arizona’s Meteor Crater
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Cross-basin winds produced by asymmetric insolation of the crater sidewalls occur in Arizona?s Meteor Crater on days with weak background winds. The diurnal cycle of the cross-basin winds is analyzed together with radiation, ...
A Mass Flux Model of Nocturnal Cold-Air Intrusions into a Closed Basin
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: bservations made during the Meteor Crater Experiment (METCRAX) field campaign revealed unexpected nighttime cooling characteristics in Arizona?s Meteor Crater. Unlike in other natural closed basins, a near-isothermal ...
Nocturnal Cold-Air Intrusions into a Closed Basin: Observational Evidence and Conceptual Model
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Observations are analyzed to explain an unusual feature of the nighttime atmospheric structure inside Arizona?s idealized, basin-shaped Meteor Crater. The upper 75%?80% of the crater?s atmosphere, which overlies an intense ...
Sensitivity of Near-Surface Temperature Forecasts to Soil Properties over a Sparsely Vegetated Dryland Region
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: eather Research and Forecasting Model forecasts over the Great Salt Lake Desert erroneously underpredict nocturnal cooling over the sparsely vegetated silt loam soil area of Dugway Proving Ground in northern Utah, with a ...