Detecting Significant Small-Scale Features in Large-Scale Patterns

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Detecting Significant Small-Scale Features in Large-Scale Patterns

1984
Series: Eastern Region technical attachment (National Weather Service (U.S.)) 84-2

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Corporate Authors:

United States. National Weather Service. Eastern Region
NOAA Program & Office:

NWS (National Weather Service) ; ER (Eastern Region)
Description:

This has been an unusual winter in the Eastern Region. Most of our snow has been due to small-scale features rather than large organized storms. On January 10-11 and, again, on January 18-19, up to 8-10 inches of snow were observed from the Appalachians eastward and from Virginia northward. The large-scale features were quite similar-- a long wave trough at 85°-90°W and small vorticity maxima moving rapidly through it. The LFM and MOS showed considerable skill in specifying the snow amounts and precipitation type.
Keywords:

Synoptic Meteorology Weather Forecasting Winter Synoptic Meteorology Weather Forecasting
Series:

Eastern Region technical attachment (National Weather Service (U.S.)) 84-2
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pdf
Document Type:

Technical Attachment
Place as Subject:

East (U.S.)
License:

https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
Rights Information:

CC0 Public Domain
Compliance:

Submitted
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