To provide a basis for describing the development of west coast fog and stratus events and improving terminal forecasts of them, summaries of the observations found to be most useful have been selected and entered upon suitable forms day-by-day over monthly periods. The first application of the summaries has been to the Monterey Airport. Coauthors Weygand and Millard are operational forecasters in the Monterey Forecast Center of the National Weather Service. The San Francisco terminal is within the area of responsibility of the Monterey Center. The senior author has had an informal working partnership since 1994 with that Center. Beginning in January 1998 he also has a research grant funded by the FAA for application of the Monterey results to forecasts at San Francisco Airport
There are two different data summaries. One is a table of information from RAOBS, surface observations and remote imaging used for studying fog events at Monterey. Working with Walter Strach, the senior meteorologist at the FAA Oakland Center, this summary is being revised for application to fog and stratus at San Francisco. The second data summary is a graphical representation showing the duration of fog and stratus events at both Monterey and San Francisco, and related observations. It features surface pressure trends. The elements of these data summaries will be described and their relationships to the fog and stratus events at Monterey will be indicated
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