Winter AWOC Microclimates Page

As part of IC 4.3, you have the opportunity to write a quick (one or two page) description of a microclimate in your CWA and describe why this microclimate is important to your forecasts. This exercise should be a “quick and dirty” write-up. If you spend more than an hour or two on this exercise, your scope may be too broad or too detailed. You don't need to do original ground-breaking research--just document what you have already learned from your experience in dealing with the weather in your CWA. You may learn that your subject has been documented in the literature, if so, reference the literature in standard AMS style format. Likewise, you may have a smart tool that you use to forecast the occurrence of the microclimate oriented weather event. Be sure to document your smart tool as well. Should you choose to document a microclimate, you may choose to work as sole author, or include your colleagues as multiple authors.

Below are several examples of microclimate write-ups that have been submitted so far:

1. Fairbanks, AK: Tanana Valley Jet -
2. Binghamton, NY: Finger Lakes Lake-Effect Snow Belt - Evans
3. Glasgow, MT: Low-level Inversion in the Milk River Valley - Zeltwanger
4. Des Moines, IA: The Nishnabotna and other Central Iowa River Valleys - Steinbugl
5. Seattle, WA: The Olympic Shadow Zone - Cushmeer
6. Paducah, KY: Kentucky and Barkley Lakes Microclimate - Noles