Abstract: The breakup of temperature inversions in the deep mountain valleys of western Colorado has been studied by means of tethered balloon observations of wind and temperature structure on clear weather days in different seasons. ...

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Abstract: Three sulfur hexafluoride atmospheric tracer experiments were conducted during the post-sunrise temperature inversion breakup period in the deep, narrow Brush Creek Valley of Colorado. Experiments were conducted under ...

Abstract: The characteristics of well-developed downslope winds observed by tethered balloon soundings at multiple locations over a low-angle slope in the Salt Lake Valley are studied using the Regional Atmospheric Modeling System ...

Abstract: Thermally driven downslope flows were investigated on a low-angle (1.6°) slope on the west side of the floor of Utah?s Salt Lake Valley below the Oquirrh Mountains using data from a line of four tethered balloons running ...

Abstract: he Weather Research and Forecasting model is used to perform large-eddy simulations of thermally driven cross-basin winds in idealized, closed basins. A spatially and temporally varying heat flux is prescribed at the surface ...

Abstract: Twelve typical wintertime wind patterns for the Grand Canyon region were derived from a two-stage cluster analysis wind-field classification scheme. The wind measurements were collected by a surface network of 15 stations ...

Abstract: rooms, commonly called ice mushrooms, are large bulbous or mushroom-shaped accretions of hard rime that build up on the upwind side of mountain summits and ridges and on windward rock faces. This paper reviews the ...

Abstract: A short review of solar semidiurnal atmospheric tides is presented. Semidiurnal atmospheric tides have been documented in the troposphere primarily through analyses of long time series of surface pressure measurements, ...

Abstract: Momentum and heat budget equations for katabatic flows on sloping surfaces are revisited. Terms in these equations are evaluated using wind and potential temperature data from four tethered-balloon data collection systems ...