Examples of Select AMU Projects
- Brush fire results in a tornado at KSC
- Anvil Threat Sector Tool in MIDDS and AWIPS
- Objective Lightning Probability
- Climatology of Lightning Probability
The threat of lightning is a daily concern during the warm season
(May-September) in Florida. The forecasters at the Spaceflight
Meteorology Group (SMG) at Johnson Spaceflight Center in Houston, TX
consider lightning in their landing forecasts for space shuttles at the
Kennedy Space Center (KSC), FL Shuttle Landing Facility (SLF). The
forecasters at the National Weather Service in Melbourne, FL (NWS MLB)
do the same in their routine Terminal Aerodrome Forecasts (TAFs) for
seven airports in the NWS MLB County Warning Area (CWA). The AMU created flow regime climatologies of lightning probability for 5-, 10-, 20-, and 30-n mi circles surrounding the SLF and all airports in the NWS MLB county warning area in 1-, 3-, and 6-hour increments. The Florida flow regimes used in this work were first described in Lericos et al. (2002) [see full reference in final report] and modified in subsequent studies as follows:
The climatological forecaster tool resulting from this work provided the meteorologists with a web-based graphical user interface written in Hyper-Text Markup Language. The data is presented in tabular and graphical format for each location by flow regime or time interval as shown in the screen shot below. The full report is available here: click for report. |
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