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BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY
Volume 97, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
AMER METEOROLOGICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-D-14-00238.1
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- NSF's Physical and Dynamic Meteorology Division [AGS-1160730, AGS-1160737]
- International Bureau of BMBF [01 DM 13002]
- Directorate For Geosciences
- Div Atmospheric & Geospace Sciences [1160730] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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The second Meteor Crater Experiment (METCRAX II) was conducted in October 2013 at Arizona's Meteor Crater. The experiment was designed to investigate nighttime downslope windstorm-type flows that form regularly above the inner southwest sidewall of the 1.2-km diameter crater as a southwesterly mesoscale katabatic flow cascades over the crater rim. The objective of METCRAX II is to determine the causes of these strong, intermittent, and turbulent inflows that bring warm-air intrusions into the southwest part of the crater. This article provides an overview of the scientific goals of the experiment; summarizes the measurements, the crater topography, and the synoptic meteorology of the study period; and presents initial analysis results.
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