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Situational lightning climatologies for central florida: phase iv: central florida flow regime based climatologies of lightning probabilities
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Bauman II, William H. |
| Copyright Year | 2009 |
| Description | The threat of lightning is a daily concern during the warm season in Florida. Research has revealed distinct spatial and temporal distributions of lightning occurrence that are strongly influenced by large-scale atmospheric flow regimes. Previously, the Applied Meteorology Unit (AMU) calculated the gridded lightning climatologies based on seven flow regimes over Florida for 1-, 3- and 6-hr intervals in 5-, 10-, 20-, and 30-NM diameter range rings around the Shuttle Landing Facility (SLF) and eight other airfields in the National Weather Service in Melbourne (NWS MLB) county warning area (CWA). In this update to the work, the AMU recalculated the lightning climatologies for using individual lightning strike data to improve the accuracy of the climatologies. The AMU included all data regardless of flow regime as one of the stratifications, added monthly stratifications, added three years of data to the period of record and used modified flow regimes based work from the AMU's Objective Lightning Probability Forecast Tool, Phase II. The AMU made changes so the 5- and 10-NM radius range rings are consistent with the aviation forecast requirements at NWS MLB, while the 20- and 30-NM radius range rings at the SLF assist the Spaceflight Meteorology Group in making forecasts for weather Flight Rule violations during Shuttle landings. The AMU also updated the graphical user interface with the new data. |
| File Size | 151291 |
| Page Count | 2 |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_20130012960 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t0gv0kh7w |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 2009-10-17 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Meteorology And Climatology Temporal Distribution Climatology Warm Fronts Spatial Distribution Meteorological Parameters Lightning Probability Theory Graphical User Interface Flight Rules Seasons Florida Meteorology Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports Server (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
