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Orographic lifting’s impact on the Western Slope
Orographic lifting contributes to the snowpack in a way that differs from a typical storm system. Tom Renwick, Meteorologist ...
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Current WRP Projects: Project 53
A final WWMPP report (Rasmussen 2014) and a host of published observational and numerical modelling studies, supported by the UW Water Research Program and the National Science Foundation, indicate ...
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Amazing photos show a UFO cloud hovering over Mount Etna
As the air rises in this way, which is known as orographic lifting, it is forced to cool and condense into clouds. Such clouds are then shaped by the strong winds and contorted by the mountain ...
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College of Engineering and Physical Sciences
to study natural orographic precipitation processes and snowfall enhancement by means of glaciogenic seeding of orographic clouds. The first NSF-funded project was ASCII, conducted in 2012-13 over the ...