Sensitivity Studies on the Impact of Dust and Aerosol Pollution Acting as Cloud Nucleating Aerosol on Orographic Precipitation in the Colorado River Basin

Figure 7

500 mb geopotential heights for Case Study 1 (a); 500-hPa geopotential height (m) from the NARR dataset for Case Study 2 (b); 500-hPa geopotential height (m) from the NARR dataset for Case Study 3 (c). (Image provided by the NOAA/ESRL Physical Science Division, Boulder Colorado from their Web site at https://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/.) In these plots, the axis is the longitude and axis is the latitude. The black contour lines are geopotential height contours (m) and the shaded color bars are the isotachs (knots).

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