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Applied Meteorology Unit (AMU) Quarterly Report First Quarter FY-14NASA's LSP and other programs at Vandenberg Air Force Base (VAFB) use wind forecasts issued by the 30th Operational Support Squadron (30 OSS) to determine if they need to limit activities or protect property such as a launch vehicle due to the occurrence of warning level winds at VAFB in California. The 30 OSS tasked the AMU to provide a wind forecasting capability to improve wind warning forecasts and enhance the safety of their customers' operations. This would allow 30 OSS forecasters to evaluate pressure gradient thresholds between pairs of regional observing stations to help determine the onset and duration of warning category winds. Development of such a tool will require that solid relationships exist between wind speed and the pressure gradient of one or more station pairs. As part of this task, the AMU will also create a statistical climatology of meteorological observations from the VAFB wind towers.
Document ID
20140013373
Acquisition Source
Kennedy Space Center
Document Type
Presentation
Authors
Bauman, William Henry (ENSCO, Inc. Cocoa Beach, FL, United States)
Crawford, Winifred C. (ENSCO, Inc. Cocoa Beach, FL, United States)
Shafer, Jaclyn A. (ENSCO, Inc. Cocoa Beach, FL, United States)
Watson, Leela R. (ENSCO, Inc. Cocoa Beach, FL, United States)
Huddleston, Lisa L. (NASA Kennedy Space Center Cocoa Beach, FL, United States)
Decker, Ryan K. (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Huntsville, AL, United States)
Date Acquired
November 5, 2014
Publication Date
January 31, 2014
Subject Category
Meteorology And Climatology
Report/Patent Number
DRL-003 DRD-004
KSC-E-DAA-TN13156
Funding Number(s)
CONTRACT_GRANT: NNK12MA53C
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Public Use Permitted.
Keywords
Forecasting
Weather
Applied Meteorology Unit

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