Abstract: Observational evidence from instrumented aircraft, Doppler radar and rawinsondes suggest low-level, mountain-parallel jets are a common wintertime feature along the western slope of the Sierra Nevada Range and extending ...

Abstract: Katabatic winds are a dominant feature of the lower atmosphere over Antarctica. The radial diffluence displayed by the drainage flows implies that a continental-scale subsidence is present over Antarctica. From mass ...

Abstract: Surface winds over the Antarctic interior occur mainly due to the strong radiational cooling of the ice slopes. As a consequence, such winds exhibit a high degree of persistence with a predominant direction closely related ...

Abstract: Certain coastal sections of Antarctica, most notably Adelie Land and Terra Nova Bay, experience anomalously intense, persistent katabatic winds. The forcing of such katabatic outflow is believed to originate several hundred ...

Abstract: Coast-parallel low-level jets are commonplace in the offshore environment along the west coast of the United States during summer. The jet often has wind speeds in excess of 30 m s?1 and is typically situated near the top ...

Abstract: etailed ground-based and airborne measurements were conducted of the summertime Great Plains low-level jet (LLJ) in central Kansas during the Plains Elevated Convection at Night (PECAN) campaign. Airborne measurements using ...

Abstract: ertical accelerations during the early stages of convective cloud formation are often the result of buoyancy and the perturbation vertical pressure gradient forces. Convection modifies the local pressure field surrounding ...

Abstract: irborne measurement of the horizontal pressure field using differential GPS technology has been established during the last few years. Accurate aircraft measurement of the horizontal pressure gradient force requires an ...

Abstract: Coastally trapped wind reversals (CTWRs) occur periodically in the marine boundary layer off the western coast of the United States and dramatically change the low-level wind regime and coastal weather. Southerly flow ...

Abstract: Several flights were conducted by the University of Wyoming King Air near Cape Mendocino, California, during June 2004 to examine finescale features of the coastal low-level jet (CJ) that frequently forms during summer ...