USING MID-LEVEL THICKNESS PATTERNS AND WARM AIR ADVECTION TO FORECAST HEAVY SNOW

Richard J. Naistat

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USING MID-LEVEL THICKNESS PATTERNS AND WARM AIR ADVECTION TO FORECAST HEAVY SNOW

1988
By Richard J. Naistat
Series: Central Region Technical Attachment 88-36

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Personal Author:

Richard J. Naistat
Corporate Authors:

United States. National Weather Service. Forecast Office
NOAA Program & Office:

NWS (National Weather Service) ; NWC (National Water Center)
Description:

Forecasting heavy snow has always been a challenge to forecasters. They have to rely cm a variety of techniques to make quality forecasts. Mary of these techniques require choosing a path for the surface low and/or 500 mb vorticity maximum. In the age of multiple numerical models, determining the actual path of a feature, such as a 500 mb vorticity iraximum, becomes difficult because the models often provide divergent solutions. Mary times, reasons to select one model over another are hard to justify.
Keywords:

Divergent Thinking Forecasting Futurologists Models And Modelmaking Numerical Weather Forecasting Snow Solution Divergent Thinking Models And Modelmaking Numerical Weather Forecasting
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Central Region Technical Attachment 88-36
Document Type:

Technical Attachment
Place as Subject:

Minnesota
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Public Domain
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