The National Weather Service (NWS) is modernizing offices, equipment, and products, and enhancing the training of its employees in order to heighten services it provides to the nation. A cornerstone of the modernization is the WSR-88D (Weather Surveillance Radar-1988 Doppler). The national network of WSR-88D radars will provide nearly complete coverage of the United States and the adjacent coastal waters. Melbourne forecasters recognized the need for additional offshore data in order to better interpret the mechanisms producing the observed features and the resulting conditions. Consequently, a research project was designed to look at meteorological features in the coastal waters with both the Melbourne WSR-88D and marine observations from an instrumented vessel. Observations made from the chase vessel would supplement Surface Aviation Observations (SAO), Cape Canaveral tower wind instruments, weather buoy observations, and ship observations to provide a more complete surface observation network from which to analyze radar observed features. This project was designated SWIFT BOAT (Subtropical Weather Investigation and Forecaster Training using Boat Observations and Atmospheric sampling to marine Truth and WSR-88D).
SWIFT BOAT '94: Using a Fast Chase Boat to Investigate Offshore Weather Features in Conjunction with WSR-88D Observations
1994
20 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
Meteorological Data Collection, Analysis, & Weather , Dynamic Meteorology , Weather forecasting , Meteorological radar , Boats , Florida , Weather observations , Doppler radar , Synoptic analysis , Weather data , Wind velocity , Thunderstorms , Precipitation(Meteorology) , Program evaluation , WSR-88D system , Weather surveillance radar , Chase boat
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