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: High-resolution analyses and MesoWest surface observations are used to examine the life cycle and mesoscale frontal structure of the ?Tax Day Storm,? an intermountain cyclone that produced the second lowest sea level ...

Abstract: Spurious grid-scale precipitation (SGSP) occurs in many mesoscale numerical weather prediction models when the simulated atmosphere becomes convectively unstable and the convective parameterization fails to relieve the ...

Abstract: On 25 March 2006, a complex frontal system moved across the Sierra?Cascade Mountains and intensified rapidly over the Intermountain West where it produced one of the strongest cold-frontal passages observed in Salt Lake ...