Peak Wind Tool for General Forecasting

Peak Wind Tool for General Forecasting
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ISBN-13 : 9781719485951
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Book Synopsis Peak Wind Tool for General Forecasting by : National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

Download or read book Peak Wind Tool for General Forecasting written by National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-05-22 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. Barrett, Joe H., III and Short, David Kennedy Space Center METEOROLOGY; WIND VELOCITY; TEMPERATURE INVERSIONS; GUSTS; FORECASTING; LINEAR EQUATIONS; PREDICTIONS; TOWERS; DEPTH


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