Real-Time Monitoring of the Great Salt Lake Circulation:

      Divergence, vorticity and mean wind calculations are
made in real-time with data from MesoWest using the
linear model method discussed in Davies-Jones
(1993) "Useful Formulas for Computing Divergence, Vorticity,
and their Errors from Three or More Stations".

     Estimates of the representative air temperature over the lake
and the air temperature over the nearby surrounding land are
also calculated using Mesonet data.

     Data contained in the following real-time diagnostic(s) are
based on hourly averaged estimates.  The mean-wind is intended
to represent the mean wind somewhere over the middle of the
Great Salt Lake.

                *  MesoWest Lake Diagnostic

                * Sectorized Lake Divergence Plot

    The diagnostics will be tested for its use in helping monitor
and predict the Lake Effect or Lake Enhanced Snow events
that occur downwind of the Great Salt Lake during the cold
season.
 

Climatology of the Great Salt Lake Divergence and Vorticity:

                * JUL , 1999
                * AUG, 1999
                * SEP,   1999