The 1995 Arizona Program: Toward a Better Understanding of Winter Storm Precipitation Development in Mountainous Terrain
| Autor: | Roger F. Reinking, Eric A. Betterton, William D. Hall, Taneil Uttal, Brian A. Klimowski, Terry L. Clark, Brad W. Orr, Paivi Piironen, Robert Becker, Robert A. Kropfli, Roelof Bruintjes, Dennis Sundie |
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| Rok vydání: | 1998 |
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| Zdroj: | Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 79:799-813 |
| ISSN: | 1520-0477 0003-0007 |
| DOI: | 10.1175/1520-0477(1998)079<0799:taptab>2.0.co;2 |
| Popis: | The 1995 Arizona Program was a field experiment aimed at advancing the understanding of winter storm development in a mountainous region of central Arizona. From 15 January through 15 March 1995, a wide variety of instrumentation was operated in and around the Verde Valley southwest of Flagstaff, Arizona. These instruments included two Doppler dual-polarization radars, an instrumented airplane, a lidar, microwave and infrared radiometers, an acoustic sounder, and other surface-based facilities. Twenty-nine scientists from eight institutions took part in the program. Of special interest was the interaction of topographically induced, storm-embedded gravity waves with ambient upslope flow. It is hypothesized that these waves serve to augment the upslope-forced precipitation that falls on the mountain ridges. A major thrust of the program was to compare the observations of these winter storms to those predicted with the Clark-NCAR 3D, nonhydrostatic numerical model. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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