Department of Meteorology Research Related to the Great Salt Lake Crosman, E., and J. Horel, 2006: Remote Sensing of the Surface Temperature of the Great Salt Lake. Submitted Journal of Geophysical Research--Oceans. Crosman, E., 2005: Remote Sensing of the Surface Temperature of the Great Salt Lake. M.S. Thesis. 98 pp. Zumpfe, D., J. Horel, 2005: Lake-breeze fronts in the Salt Lake Valley. Submitted J. Appl. Meteor. Ludwig, F.J.,J. Horel, C.D. Whiteman, 2004: Using EOF analysis to identify important surface wind patterns in mountain valleys. J. Climate and Appl. Meteor. In press. Crosman, E., J. Horel, 2004: Climatology and Variability of Satellite-derived Temperature of the Great Salt Lake. Poster submitted to Intermountain Weather Prediction Workshop. Zumpfe, D., 2004: A Case Study of a Strong Lake-breeze Front in the Salt Lake Valley. M.S. Thesis. 98 pp. Cox, J. A. W., W. J. Steenburgh, D. E. Kingsmill, J. C. Shafer, B. A. Colle, O. Bousquet, B. F. Smull, and H. Cai, 2004: The kinematic structure of a Wasatch Mountain winter storm during IPEX IOP3. Submitted to Mon. Wea. Rev. Steenburgh, W. J., 2004: One hundred inches in one hundred hours - The complex evolution of an Intermountain winter storm cycle. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc.. Steenburgh, W. J., 2003: One hundred inches in one hundred hours: Evolution of a Wasatch Mountain winter storm cycle. Wea. Forecasting, 18, 1018-1036. Schultz, D. M., W. J. Steenburgh, R. J. Trapp, J. Horel, D. E. Kingsmill, L. B. Dunn, W. D. Rust, L. Cheng, A. Bansemer, J. Cox, J. Daugherty, D. P. Jorgensen, J. Meitin, L. Showell, B. F. Smull, K. Tarp, and M. Trainor, 2002: Understanding Utah winter storms: The Intermountain Precipitation Experiment. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 83, 189-210. Horel, J., M. Splitt, L. Dunn, J. Pechmann, B. White, C. Ciliberti, S. Lazarus, J. Slemmer, D. Zaff, J. Burks, 2002: MesoWest: Cooperative Mesonets in the Western United States. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 83, 211-226. Horel, J., T. Potter, L. Dunn, W. J. Steenburgh, M. Eubank, M. Splitt, and D. J. Onton, 2002: Weather support for the 2002 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 83, 227-240. Stewart, J. Q., C. D. Whiteman, W. J. Steenburgh, and X. Bian, 2002: A climatological study of thermally driven wind systems of the U.S. Intermountain West. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 83, 699-708. Onton, D. J., and W. J. Steenburgh, 2001: Diagnostic and sensitivity studies of the 7 December 1998 Great Salt Lake-effect snowstorm. Mon. Wea. Rev., 129, 1318-1338. Steenburgh, W. J., and D. J. Onton, 2001: Multiscale analysis of the 7 December 1998 Great Salt Lake-effect snowstorm. Mon. Wea. Rev., 129, 1296-1317. Steenburgh, W. J., S. F. Halvorson, and D. J. Onton, 2000: Climatology of lake-effect snowstorms of the Great Salt Lake. Mon. Wea. Rev., 128, 709-727. Onton, D. J., 2000: An observational and numerical modeling investigation of Great Salt Lake-effect snow. Ph.D. dissertation, Dept. of Meteorology, University of Utah, 131 pp. Halvorson, S. F., 1999: Climatology of lake-effect snowstorms of the Great Salt Lake. M. S. thesis, Dept. of Meteorology, University of Utah, 78 pp. Click here for research related to saline lakes and lake temperature