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Peak wind tool for general forecasting
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Short, David Barrett II, Joe H. |
| Copyright Year | 2008 |
| Description | This report describes work done by the Applied Meteorology Unit (AMU) in predicting peak winds at Kennedy Space Center (KSC) and Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS). The 45th Weather Squadron requested the AMU develop a tool to help them forecast the speed and timing of the daily peak and average wind, from the surface to 300 ft on KSC/CCAFS during the cool season. Based on observations from the KSC/CCAFS wind tower network , Shuttle Landing Facility (SLF) surface observations, and CCAFS sounding s from the cool season months of October 2002 to February 2007, the AMU created mul tiple linear regression equations to predict the timing and speed of the daily peak wind speed, as well as the background average wind speed. Several possible predictors were evaluated, including persistence , the temperature inversion depth and strength, wind speed at the top of the inversion, wind gust factor (ratio of peak wind speed to average wind speed), synoptic weather pattern, occurrence of precipitation at the SLF, and strongest wind in the lowest 3000 ft, 4000 ft, or 5000 ft. |
| File Size | 33260113 |
| Page Count | 63 |
| File Format | |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_20080021728 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t87h6k50w |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 2008-04-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Meteorology And Climatology Towers Temperature Inversions Predictions Wind Velocity Linear Equations Gusts Forecasting Depth Meteorology Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports Server (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Technical Report |
