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<br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br /> <br />low to lhc east Below 700 mb the winds rotating around the surface low were ncarly southwesterly. <br />The result of this synoptic pattern was a gentle upslope of moisture helow 700 mh, with orographIc <br />cloud development over the ''''estern slopes of the nonhMs(luth oriented Wasatch Plateau Above 500 <br />mb there was a sharp shear layer, with winds above the layer having an easterly component <br />Figures'" and 5 shO\v composites of infrared satdlitc images and 700 mb data for 0500 and <br />1700 on 26 January 1994. The flow pattern around the closed low can be sccn in the Wind barb <br />orientations and also in the cloud pattern where coldcr topped cloud band.. appeared to spiral around <br />the low. In Fig. 4 the research area was being affected by one: of these bands By 1700 in Fig 5 the <br />colder cloud tops v.'ere mainly ca<;t of the project area, and winds were becoming more northcrly as <br />the low continued to track eastward. The moist region, outlined by the 30 dew point depression <br />contour. continued to co\'cr the Great Basin area over the 12-h period, <br /> <br />-?J <br /> <br /> <br />.-- <br /> <br />I.--- <br /> <br />2980 <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />Fi?,ure -I. 700 mh heiKhts (red), temperaJure.\' (yellow). dew pOint depressIOn.\" (cyan) and wmd.... <br />(red barhs) from /200 GAff (0500 M.\T) upper Olr data on 26 January /99-1, over/aid on /2()() <br />GA{TGOEr.;; IR Image. HR...'.;; marks the pOSIIUJn of the NOAA-Utah re.H'arch area. <br /> <br />II <br />