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<br />Reinking, R. F., and J. F. Boatman, 1987: Upslope precipitation events. Chapter 19, Mesoscale Meteorology
<br />and Forecasting, P. Ray (ed.). American Meteorological Society, Boston, MA, 437-471.
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<br />Plains on the lee side of mountain ranges in the middle latitudes commonly receive their winter
<br />precipitation from circulations that are counter to the climatologically prevailing westerlies; moisture-
<br />bearing easterly currents are driven up the slopes of the lee-side plains, toward the mountains, by
<br />synoptic circulations. "Upslope stonns" have been so named under the presumption that advection over
<br />the generally rising terrain induces lifting, cloudiness, and precipitation. This tenn is inexact; the lifting
<br />from low to high plains is more subtle than lifting by mountain ranges, and must be considered relative
<br />to superimposed lifting over frontal surfaces or by cyclonic convergence. "Upslope," by popular usage,
<br />nonetheless suffices to categorize the cloud systems described in this chapter.
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<br />Two extremely different driving circulations detennine the characteristics of upslope events: the fully
<br />developed extratropical cyclone and the shallow arctic anticyclone. Mesoscale forecasting is made
<br />difficult by a number of variable and often contradictory factors that include blocking or cyclogenesis
<br />induced by the mountain range, depth and vorticity of the synoptic circulations, overriding
<br />countercurrents, oceanic or regional sources of moisture, degree and irregularities of topographic lifting,
<br />and dynamic and thennodynamic support for various microphysical precipitation-fonning processes.
<br />Observational studies of the dynamical and microphysical events and processes that cause winter
<br />upslope cloudiness and precipitation are reviewed, with the focus on upslope precipitation in the rain
<br />shadow of the Rocky Mountains, where the full range of interactive processes and scales comes into
<br />play.
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<br />Reinking, R. F., 1986: On the communication and practical value of research results. Proceedings, 12th Annual
<br />Meeting of the North American Interstate Weather Modification Council, Austin, lX, May 3-5, 1986.
<br />Office of the NAIWMC, Mesilla Park, NM, 71-78.
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<br />No abstract.
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<br />Reinking, R. F., 1986: Research for managing the quantity and quality of precipitation: Perspectives for
<br />scientists and policy makers. Preprints, 10th Conference on Planned and Inadvertent Weather
<br />Modification, Arlington, V A, May 27-30, 1986. Amelrican Meteorological Society, Boston, MA,
<br />298- 303.
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<br />No abstract.
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<br />Reinking, R. F., and D. A. Griffith, 1986: Recent findings from the State of Utah (session leaders' summary).
<br />In: Physics of Winter Orographic Precipitation and its Modification: Summary of Workshop
<br />Presentations, A. B. Super (ed.), Bureau of Reclamation, P.O. Box 25007, Denver, CO, 35-44.
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<br />No abstract.
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<br />Reinking, R. F., W. H. Hooke, and W. T. Brennan, 1986: Water, water (but not everywhere). NOAA, 16:10-12.
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<br />It is in NOAA's interests to define, through basic research, the realities of cloud seeding and, in so
<br />doing, to learn more about the water budget of clouds and their precipitation efficiency. An effort of
<br />this sort, addressing the atmospheric portion of the hydrologic cycle, not only could pemit more
<br />productive cloud seeding-the goal of the weather modification operators and users-but also better
<br />water management through more accurate quantitative precipitation forecasting, improved runoff
<br />prediction, better river flow forecasting, and improvements in other predictive areas in which
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