REPLY TO COMMENTS ON "HEAVY SNOWFALL DURING AN ARCTIC OUTBREAK ALONG THE COLORADO FRONT RANGE"

We thank Dr. Auer for his interesting comments (Auer, 1991) on our manuscript (Wesley et al., 1990, hereafter referenced as WWP). The components of his note are particularly useful due to his extensive experience in observing snowstorms for many years in this region. Certainly, the extreme arctic ou...

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Main Authors: Doug Wesley, John Weaver, Roger Pielke
Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
Format: Text
Language:English
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Arctic
Online Access:http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.393.467
http://pielkeclimatesci.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/r-170.pdf
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Summary:We thank Dr. Auer for his interesting comments (Auer, 1991) on our manuscript (Wesley et al., 1990, hereafter referenced as WWP). The components of his note are particularly useful due to his extensive experience in observing snowstorms for many years in this region. Certainly, the extreme arctic outbreaks of the type which occurred 1-5 February 1989 may occur only about once or twice per decade in this region, and our experience suppOIis this qualitative estimate. However, less extreme but dynamically similar events, such as 9-10 February 1988 (Wesley and

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