Gap winds and wakes: SAR observations and numerical simulations

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences;  April 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ...ABSTRACT The nature of terrain-induced gap winds and wakes in the atmosphere is examined...narrowing valley walls in the acceleration of gap winds. Wind speeds in the wake region are controlled...Bernoulli function and regional pressure. Gap winds therefore are streams of air that ...

Gap Flows through Idealized Topography. Part I: Forcing by Large-Scale...

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences;  December 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ...ABSTRACT Gap winds produced by a uniform airstream flowing over an isolated...cross-barrier flow. In a second prototypical case-gap winds-the winds blow through a gap in the ridge. Gap winds typically occur when there is a significant drop...

Gap Flows through Idealized Topography. Part II: Effects of Rotation and...

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences;  November 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......mesoscale circulations for the generation of gap winds was examined by changing the direction...observed in many parts of the world. These "gap winds" occur in the presence of along-gap pressure...relatively broad Tennessee Valley. Idealized gap winds driven by the large-scale ...

Analysis of surface winds in Shelikof Strait, Alaska, using moored buoy...

Weather and Forecasting;  September 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ......period in 1994. The focus is on periods of gap winds, when the prominent terrain bordering...wind shear at the top of the gap flow. Gap winds are favored more during downstrait flow...An opportunity to further study the gap winds of Shelikof Strait came about as part...

Fatalities Associated with Nonconvective High-Wind Events in the United...

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology;  February 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......nonconvective high winds (defined as phenomena such as downslope and gap winds, gradient winds, dust storms, and winds associated with midlatitude...the casualties caused by wind phenomena such as downslope and gap winds, gradient winds, dust storms, and other nonconvective winds...

Transport of Atmospheric Aerosol by Gap Winds in the Columbia River Gorge

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology;  January 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......data analysis, including receptor modeling, which are not discussed in this paper, were used to attribute haze in the gorge to source areas and source types (Green et al. 2006b; Green and Xu 2007). Gap winds in the Columbia River gorge Gap winds a

Midsummer Gap Winds and Low-Level Circulation over the Eastern Tropical...

Journal of Climate;  August 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......in the western Caribbean that favors the tunneling of the trade winds through the Papagayo gap. The SLP pattern causing the gap winds in winter is different than in midsummer, being the southeastward intrusion of high pressure systems coming from the northwest...

Columbia Gorge Gap Winds: Their Climatological Influence and Synoptic...

Weather and Forecasting;  December 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......freezing rain events features a split developing in the upstream ridge with zonal flow at midlatitudes, while for easterly gap winds accompanied by snowfall, there is an amplification of the ridge. 1. Introduction The states of Washington and Oregon are divided...

General Assembly session dominated by Iraq, Sudan, terrorism and closing...

AP Worldstream;  October 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ...JONATHAN EWING, Associated Press Writer AP Worldstream 10-01-2004 Dateline: UNITED NATIONS World leaders wrapped up their two-week annual meeting at the U.N. General Assembly, a session dominated by concerns over the upcoming elections in Iraq and the ongoing killings in Sudan's Darfur region, and

Air-Sea Interaction over the Eastern Pacific Warm Pool: Gap Winds,...

Journal of Climate;  January 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ...ABSTRACT High-resolution satellite observations are used to investigate air-sea interaction over the eastern Pacific warm pool. In winter, strong wind jets develop over the Gulfs of Tehuantepec, Papagayo, and Panama, accelerated by the pressure gradients between the Atlantic and Pacific across

Validation of the Coupled NCEP Mesoscale Spectral Model and an Advanced...

Weather and Forecasting;  December 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......Around the corners of the islands and in gaps between mountains, gap winds and downslope windstorms are both important for the development...will also be examined. Section 2 contains a brief overview of gap winds, downslope windstorms, and airflow over an isolated island...

The Scripps Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Regional (SCOAR) Model, with...

Journal of Climate;  February 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......tropical instability waves of the eastern tropical Pacific, mesoscale eddies and fronts of the California Current System, and gap winds of the Central American coast. Recent observational evidence suggests air-sea interactions involving the oceanic mesoscale...

Mean three-dimensional circulation in the northeast tropical Pacific

Journal of Physical Oceanography;  September 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......satellite scatterometer winds. The mean signature of the mountain-gap winds is found to be the crucial forcing element, as others have...the aim of the present study. The importance of the mountain-gap winds emphasizes the difference between the eastern Pacific and the...

Windstorms along the western side of the Washington Cascade Mountains....

Monthly Weather Review;  January 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ......including their application to Cascade leeside windstorms. 2. Previous observational and theoretical studies a. Gap winds Gap winds occur when a pressure gradient exists in the along-gap direction.

Powerful Minds Make Some Places Powerless

Yakima Herald-Republic;  March 6, 2003 ;     285 words ......the truck. I've actually seen that before," said Mike Westbay, spokesman with the state Department of Transportation in Union Gap. Winds are expected to stick around today, reaching speeds up to 40 mph, with gusts up to 55 mph, according to the National Weather...