16th Conference on Air-Sea Interaction
Eighth Conference on Coastal Atmospheric and Oceanic Prediction and Processes

J8.3

Study of sea-breeze interactions which can produce strong warm-season convective winds in the Cape Canaveral area

Christopher J. Ander, Plymouth State University, Plymouth, NH ; and A. J. Frumkin, J. P. Koermer, and W. P. Roeder

Strong convective winds in the Cape Canaveral area can pose a significant threat to operations at Kennedy Space Center and the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. A convective wind warm-season (May-September) climatology has been refined and expanded based on 13-years of 5-minute peak wind reports from 84 anemometers on 36 mesonet towers, high resolution radar data from KMLB, and other surface and upper air reports. There are about 67 convective events per season with nearly 35% of these events having warning-level ( ≥ 35 knots) wind reports during those months. Radar/wind analyses clearly show the importance of the sea-breeze boundary interactions in the evolution of these strong events. This paper will review the convective wind climatology, radar/wind results and other prediction techniques.

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Joint Session 8, Coastal Mesoscale Circulations-I
Wednesday, 14 January 2009, 8:30 AM-10:00 AM, Room 128B

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