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The Effect of Decoupled Low-Level Flow on Winter Orographic Clouds and Precipitation in the Yampa River Valley

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William R Cotton, L O Grant, D C Rogers, and Thomas Carl Peterson, The Effect of Decoupled Low-Level Flow on Winter Orographic Clouds and Precipitation in the Yampa River Valley: .

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Mountains often act as barriers to low-level flow creating regions of stagnant, decoupled flow within thermally stratified air masses. This paper addresses the question: how does a region of low-level decoupled flow affect the overlying orographic cloud? Three different methodologies were used to examine this problem. The first method involved analysis of one and a half months of precipitation and wind data from a 24-station mesonetwork located in the Yampa River valley and surrounding mountains of northwest Colorado during the winter of 1981/1982 as part of the third Colorado Orographic Seeding Experiment (COSE III). The second method was a case study analysis of two orographic storms using data from an instrumented cloud physics [...]

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From Source - Mendeley RIS export <br> On - Tue May 10 11:25:03 CDT 2011

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