Wintertime cloud systems over the Colorado Rockies : three case studues

Lee, Robert Ray.

Colorado State University. Dept. of Atmospheric Science.
National Science Foundation (U.S.)

1980

Colorado State University, Dept. of Atmospheric Science

Fort Collins, Colo.

This study focuses upon the mechanisms by which mountains and synoptic weather systems interact to produce characteristic orographic cloud systems. In each of the three case studies, a synoptic cloud component, an orographic cloud component, and a convective cloud component were identified through the analysis of rawinsonde data, vertically pointing radar data, and visual observations.

"December 1980."
This report was prepared with support by National Science Foundation Grant ATM-7819261
Includes bibliographical references.

Clouds
Mountain climate
Weather
Effect of mountains on

1 online resource (xii, 115 p.) : ill.

eng

Atmospheric science paper ; no. 331

UCSU5/8.10/331/INTERNET

http://hdl.handle.net/10176/co:9473

753996675

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