(Note: this is my second abstract proposal. If there is a second
poster session, I would like this one to be considered for it).
An important issue in assessing pollutant transport tendencies from place to place is the tendency for winds to have a diurnal and seasonal climatological inclination to vary in direction and speed, both horizontally and with altitude, epecially in near-surface areas with a relatively rough topography. While resultant wind statistics, hodographs, cross tabulations of wind direction/speed observations, and wind rose diagrams permit comparisons of various stations' winds or same station winds aloft in the mean, they do not quantify natural climatological wind-vector relationships for the same observational time of day. In this regard, wind vector correlations should provide additional insights, the climatological magnitudes likely displaying systematic diurnal and seasonal magnitudes, just as those of the more conventional mean wind statistics. The purpose of this study is to study and compare the hourly-by-hour vector wind correlations between Pt. Mugu, CA (34.1 N, 119.1 W) elev. 13 ft, and Laguna Peak, CA., 3 miles east, elev. 1450 ft, by month, based on the period 1982-1992, demonstrating use of the multivariate-technique Canonical Correlation Analysis, which among other things lends itself to studies of correlations between wind-vector time series. Results showed a clear tendency for a winter maximum/summer minimum signal superimposed on an afternoon maximum/morning minimum one, the cause of this variation attributed to the comparative importance and interplay of synoptic and mesoscale forcings on winds with height, depending on the season and time of day. To help explain this variation in the correlations, the original canonical functions, their coefficients, and composite scores are further examined