Abstract: A cluster analysis of wind measurements from two meteorological stations in the Lower Fraser Valley, British Columbia, Canada, has been performed to identify mesoscale circulation regimes that are common to days on which ...

Abstract: An estimate is given of the relative importance of wind veering and turbulent diffusion in the mean horizontal spread of pollutant plumes in the atmosphere. Documented veering rates in sea breezes are used to illustrate ...

Abstract: A scaling analysis is conducted to explore the dependence of sea-breeze speed and inland occurrence in the presence of opposing winds on a set of dynamical parameters. The overall aim of the analysis is to develop an index ...

Abstract: The dynamics of coastally trapped ridges that propagate in the marine layers of western North America and southeastern Australia is examined. A nonlinear semigeostrophic theory shows that the coastal ridges develop initially ...

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Abstract: A simple shallow-water model of gap wind in a channel that is based upon hydraulic theory is presented and compared with observations and output from a 3D mesoscale numerical model. The model is found to be successful in ...

Abstract: The design of an automated radiometer traversing system used to measure nocturnal longwave surface radiative budgets in a model urban canyon is described. The system allows two net radiometers to be traversed around the ...

Abstract: A caution is offered with regard to the use of one-dimensional terrain spectra to indicate the grid resolution needed to resolve terrain forcing in mesoscale numerical modeling exercises. To illustrate this, two-dimensional ...

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Abstract: This study presents an evaluation of the performance of the Colorado State University (CSU) three-dimensional numerical mesoscale model. The evaluation consists of quantitative and qualitative comparisons of the model ...