Wintertime meteorology of the Grand Canyon region
Abstract
The Grand Canyon region of the American Southwest is an interesting region meteorologically, but because of its isolated location, the lack of major population centers in the region, and the high cost of meteorological field experiments, it has historically received little observational attention. In recent years, however, attention has been directed to episodes of visibility degradation in many of the US National parks, and two recent field studies focused on this visibility problem have greatly increased the meteorological data available for the Grand Canyon region. The most recent and comprehensive of these studies is the Navajo Generating Station Winter Visibility Study of 1989--90. This study investigated the sources of visibility degradation in Grand Canyon National Park and the meteorological mechanisms leading to low visibility episodes. In this paper we present analyses of this rich data set to gain a better understanding of the key wintertime meteorological features of the Grand Canyon region.
- Authors:
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Pacific Northwest Lab., Richland, WA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 10187987
- Report Number(s):
- PNL-SA-20898; CONF-9209163-3
ON: DE93001557
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC06-76RL01830
- Resource Type:
- Conference
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 6. American Meteorological Society conference on mountain meteorology,Portland, OR (United States),29 Sep - 2 Oct 1992; Other Information: PBD: Sep 1992
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; COLORADO; METEOROLOGY; ARIZONA; UTAH; NEW MEXICO; SEASONS; ENERGY BALANCE; WIND; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; 540110; BASIC STUDIES
Citation Formats
Whiteman, C D. Wintertime meteorology of the Grand Canyon region. United States: N. p., 1992.
Web.
Whiteman, C D. Wintertime meteorology of the Grand Canyon region. United States.
Whiteman, C D. 1992.
"Wintertime meteorology of the Grand Canyon region". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/10187987.
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title = {Wintertime meteorology of the Grand Canyon region},
author = {Whiteman, C D},
abstractNote = {The Grand Canyon region of the American Southwest is an interesting region meteorologically, but because of its isolated location, the lack of major population centers in the region, and the high cost of meteorological field experiments, it has historically received little observational attention. In recent years, however, attention has been directed to episodes of visibility degradation in many of the US National parks, and two recent field studies focused on this visibility problem have greatly increased the meteorological data available for the Grand Canyon region. The most recent and comprehensive of these studies is the Navajo Generating Station Winter Visibility Study of 1989--90. This study investigated the sources of visibility degradation in Grand Canyon National Park and the meteorological mechanisms leading to low visibility episodes. In this paper we present analyses of this rich data set to gain a better understanding of the key wintertime meteorological features of the Grand Canyon region.},
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