NASA Logo

NTRS

NTRS - NASA Technical Reports Server

Collections About News Help Login
Back to Results
Land-Breeze ForecastingThe nocturnal land breeze at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) and Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS) is both operationally significant and challenging to forecast. The occurrence and timing of land breezes impact low-level winds, atmospheric stability, low temperatures, and fog development. Accurate predictions of the land breeze are critical for toxic material dispersion forecasts associated with space launch missions, since wind direction and low-level stability can change noticeably with the onset of a land breeze. This report presents a seven-year observational study of land breezes over east-central Florida from 1995 to 2001. This comprehensive analysis was enabled by the high-resolution tower observations over KSC/CCAFS. Five-minute observations of winds, temperature, and moisture along with 9 15-MHz Doppler Radar Wind Profiler data were used to analyze specific land-breeze cases, while the tower data were used to construct a composite climatology. Utilities derived from this climatology were developed to assist forecasters in determining the land-breeze occurrence, timing, and movement based on predicted meteorological conditions.
Document ID
20030015409
Acquisition Source
Kennedy Space Center
Document Type
Contractor Report (CR)
Authors
Case, Jonathan L. (ENSCO, Inc. Cocoa Beach, FL United States)
Wheeler, Mark M. (ENSCO, Inc. Cocoa Beach, FL United States)
Merceret, Francis J.
Date Acquired
September 7, 2013
Publication Date
December 1, 2002
Subject Category
Meteorology And Climatology
Report/Patent Number
NAS 1.26:211181
NASA/CR-2002-211181
Rept-02-003
Funding Number(s)
CONTRACT_GRANT: NAS10-01052
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.

Related Records

There are no records associated with this record.
No Preview Available