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RISForecasting for a Remote Island: A Class Exercise
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Students enrolled in a satellite meteorology course at North Carolina State University, Raleigh, recently had an unusual opportunity to apply their forecast skills to predict wind and weather conditions for a remote site ...
The Genesis of Atlantic Lows Experiment: The Planetary-Boundary-Layer Subprogram of GALE
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: The Genesis of Atlantic Lows Experiment (GALE), focused an intensive data-gathering effort along the mid-Atlantic coast of the United States from 15 January through 15 March 1986. Here, the general objectives and experimental ...
Mesoscale Wind Signatures along the Carolina Coast
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Coastal winds immediately offshore of North and South Carolina often exhibit a mesoscale diffluent?confluent pattern that appears to be governed by the coastal configuration and oceanic thermal field. The stationary pattern ...
The Statistical Relationship between the Synoptic-Scale Pressure Field and the Development and Morning Transition of Surface Inversions at Two Rural Sites
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: The association between the synoptic-scale sea level pressure field and the behavior of the morning inversion at two 60-m tower sites in North and South Carolina is investigated. Daily gridded pressure data for 1976 through ...
Surface Mesoscale Processes during the 1994 Palm Sunday Tornado Outbreak
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: The tornadic storms that developed in the 27 March 1994 Palm Sunday outbreak were confined to a narrow zone extending from central and northern Alabama to western North Carolina. Analysis of surface observations and soundings ...
A Simple Model for Simulating Tornado Damage in Forests
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: An analytical model is presented to describe patterns of downed trees produced by tornadic winds. The model uses a combined Rankine vortex of specified tangential and radial components to describe a simple tornado circulation. ...
Small-Scale Structure of a Coastal Front as Revealed by Dual-Doppler Radar
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: The analysis of the rainband structure and wind fields associated with a coastal front along the North Carolina shoreline is described. Dual-Doppler radar and the augmented GALE (Genesis of Atlantic Lows Experiment) ensemble ...
The Morning Inversion Near the Ground and Its Daytime Transition at Two Rural Sites in the Carolinas
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Six years of tower data from two dissimilar sites in the eastern piedmont of the Carolinas are analyzed to yield a selective climatology of the lower portion of the morning inversion. Its transition to daytime conditions ...
Spectral Analysis of Station Pressure as an Indicator of Climatological Variations in Synoptic-Scale Activity in the Eastern United States
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: A substantial decline in North American cyclone and anticyclone activity has been documented by several recent studies based on counts of disturbance tracks. An independent method of assessing long-term trends in synoptic-scale ...
An Objective Climatology of Carolina Coastal Fronts
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: This study describes a simple objective method to identify cases of coastal frontogenesis offshore of the Carolinas and to characterize the sensible weather associated with frontal passage at measurement sites near the ...