Orographic lifting contributes to the snowpack in a way that differs from a typical storm system. Tom Renwick, Meteorologist ...

An average thunderstorm forms when warm air near the ... Thundersnow can also occur over and around mountains as a result of orographic lift. Winds blowing up the side of mountainous terrain ...

My research focuses on investigating kinematic and microphysical processes in orographic precipitation, winter storms, and tornadic thunderstorms and how these processes affect precipitation ...