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Abstract
The Terrain-Induced Rotors Experiment (Spring, 2006, Owens Valley, California) was a mountain meteorology project with the goal of exploring the formation, structure, and evolution of atmospheric rotors. T-REX included observations by three boundary layer wind profilers. These measurements formed part of a large observing network that included aircraft, in-situ soundings, lidars and sodars, surface meteorological stations and towers, and other sensors.
From this rich data set we are learning how to use a small network of wind profilers, including the high-resolution MAPR wind profiler and the mobile MISS wind profiler, to study low level mountain waves and rotors. We will present a diagnosis of the changing wave amplitude, wavelength and phase over time and height, and examine rotor or sub-rotor characteristics which are generally quite hard to capture.