IL-9: Snow & Avalanche Forecasting
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Severe & Hazardous Weather Active Learning Exercises – Ed 4
Exercise 17.3 Features of a Downslope Windstorm
The diagram above is a cross section through a mountain range looking west to east. The contours shown are streamlines of wind flow. A downslope windstorm is occurring. The gray shaded region indicates the location of clouds. On the diagram, place letters where the features listed below are located:
A. Chinook Wall
B. Rotor
C. Hydraulic Jump
D. Breaking waves
E. Inversion
F. Most severe winds at surface
G. Shooting flow
H. Snowstorm
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