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Barrier Jets

Barrier Jet is a low-level, elongated wind current that forms parallel to a mountain barrier when synoptic-scale flow is deflected by topographic blocking, resulting in accelerated winds on the leeward or flanking side due to momentum conservation and flow channeling effects.

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Barrier Winds Along the Sierra Nevada Mountains

Thomas R. Parish · Journal of applied meteorology · 1982 · 166 citations

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Impingement of an axisymmetric liquid jet on a barrier

V. E. Nakoryakov, E.N. Troyan · International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer · 1978 · 119 citations

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Barrier Jets during TAMEX

Jun Li, Yi‐Leng Chen · Monthly Weather Review · 1998 · 105 citations

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Deep Orographic Storms over the Sierra Nevada. Part I: Thermodynamic and Kinematic Structure

John D. Marwitz · Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences · 1987 · 79 citations

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Sierra Barrier Jets, Atmospheric Rivers, and Precipitation Characteristics in Northern California: A Composite Perspective Based on a Network of Wind Profilers

Paul J. Neiman, Mimi Hughes, Benjamin J. Moore et al. · Monthly Weather Review · 2013 · 69 citations · Full text

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  1. NS
    Nathaniel S. Winstead

    Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, United States

    6 publications · 165 citations

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  2. BA
    Brian A. Colle

    Stony Brook University, United States

    6 publications · 164 citations

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  3. JB
    Joseph B. Olson

    NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, United States

    4 publications · 77 citations

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  4. FM
    F. Martin Ralph

    Scripps Institution of Oceanography, United States

    3 publications · 171 citations

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  5. PJ
    Paul J. Neiman

    NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, United States

    3 publications · 171 citations

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Institutions

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  1. Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

    North Laurel, United States

    5 h-index

    6 publications

    178 citations

  2. Stony Brook University

    Stony Brook, United States

    5 h-index

    8 publications

    179 citations

  3. Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences

    Boulder, United States

    4 h-index

    9 publications

    471 citations

  4. State University of New York

    Albany, United States

    3 h-index

    4 publications

    149 citations

  5. NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory

    Boulder, United States

    3 h-index

    13 publications

    753 citations

  6. University of Washington

    Seattle, United States

    3 h-index

    4 publications

    91 citations

  7. Pennsylvania State University

    State College, United States

    3 h-index

    6 publications

    236 citations

  8. Institute of Thermophysics

    Novosibirsk, Russia

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    250 citations

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  1. Monthly Weather Review

    11 publications · 495 citations

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  2. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

    3 publications · 134 citations

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  3. Fluid Dynamics

    2 publications · 49 citations

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  5. Dynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans

    1 publications · 25 citations

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