Observational evidence from instrumented aircraft, Doppler radar and rawinsondes suggest low-level, mountain-parallel jets are a common wintertime feature along the W slope of the Sierra Nevada Range and extending into the California Valley. It is proposed that the formation and maintenance of the low-level jet is a result of the pressure field created by the damming of stable air as it is forced up against the steep mountain barrier.-from Author
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Parish, T. R. (1982). Barrier winds along the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Journal of Applied Meteorology, 21(7), 925–930. https://doi.org/10.1175/1520-0450(1982)021<0925:BWATSN>2.0.CO;2
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