Abstract: The National Weather Service, as a part of its modernization effort, is implementing the Automated Surface Observing System (ASOS). Much discussion has occurred about various aspects of ASOS versus the current system of ...

Abstract: The U.S. Sailing Team competed successfully at the 1991 Pan American Games despite having no previous experience with the sailing conditions off Havana, Cuba. One of the key factors in the team's success was meteorological ...

Abstract: Four diagnostic marine boundary-layer models are evaluated for applicability to the hurricane regime. The goat was to develop an operational method of estimating surface variables with research aircraft flight-level (500 ...

Abstract: Numerous aircraft, ship, buoy and land nation data were composited with respect to the center of Hurricane Frederic for two time periods: a 24 h period corresponding to the storm?s position in the open Gulf of Mexico on ...

Abstract: Aircraft, land station, and buoy data were composited with respect to the center of Hurricane Alicia (1983) for three 8-h periods corresponding to prelandfall in the open Gulf of Mexico, landfall in the Galveston area, and ...

Abstract: Results of hurricane boundary layer experiments conducted in outer rainbands of Hurricanes Josephine (1984) and Earl (1986) are presented. Comparisons of precipitation and kinematic structures in these storms and in Hurricane ...

Abstract: Recent aircraft boundary layer measurements in the vicinity of principal hurricane rainbands have confirmed that convective downdrafts are capable of transporting cool, dry, low equivalent potential temperature (?E) air ...

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Abstract: Tropical cyclone damage potential, as currently defined by the Saffir?Simpson scale and the maximum sustained surface wind speed in the storm, fails to consider the area impact of winds likely to force surge and waves or ...

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