This study examines the location and development of turbulence in the morning hours of boundary layer development over mountainous terrain. Four case study days are presented which illustrate important features on two types of days observed in the mountains of central Colorado.

A linear theory is given for the case of steady thermal convection in a stratified fluid with a general thermal boundary condition at the upper and lower limits of the system. The theory is applied to a number of fluid systems and the results are discussed in terms of the Rayleigh number, the horizontal wave number and the vertical velocity and temperature perturbation profiles in the vertical.

On July 25th 1999 a portion of the Saguache Creek basin located northwest of the town of Saguache Colorado experienced a localized yet intense period of rainfall. Heavy rainfall flooded Saguache Creek and its tributaries both north and south of Highway 114. The resultant flash flooding washed out roads and bridges along with the inundation of crop and rangeland located in and along these flooded tributaries. The purpose of this report is to document...

Introduces a climate index based on radiative transfer theory and derived from the spectral radiances typically used to retrieve temperature profiles.