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Abstract: Synoptic, orographic, and lake-effect precipitation processes during a major winter storm cycle over the Wasatch Mountains of northern Utah are examined using radar imagery, high-density surface data, and precipitation ...

Abstract: State license plates and tourism brochures boast that Utah ski areas receive the ?greatest snow on Earth,? but is there really anything special about Utah's snow? Often it is argued in ski industry brochures that Utah's ...

Abstract: ecent studies indicate that strong cold fronts develop frequently downstream of the Sierra Nevada over the Intermountain West. To help ascertain why, this paper examines the influence of the Sierra Nevada on the rapidly ...

Abstract: The conceptual model for height tendency presented by Hirschberg and Fritsch directly links upper-level virtual temperature tendency with low-level height tendency, overlooking the essential dynamics of mass divergence. ...

Abstract: This paper describes the life cycle of a lee trough associated with the passage of a baroclinic wave over the Rocky Mountains based on two overlapping simulations by the Pennsylvania State University-National Center for ...

Abstract: Observational analyses and numerical simulations are used to investigate the interaction of an intense extra-tropical cyclone with the coastal orography of the Pacific Northwest. Known as the ?Inauguration Day cyclone,? ...

Abstract: Observational analyses and a high-resolution simulation using The Pennsylvania State University?NCAR Mesoscale Model Version 5 (MM5) were used to describe the coastally trapped wind reversal of 19?21 July 1994. Major ...