Connell, Combs

The Summer Sea Breeze Climatology project for northern Florida finished it’s sixth season this August.  The purpose of the project is to create a wind regime-based sea breeze cloud frequency climatology designed to aid forecasters in predicting the timing and extent of convection under various background wind regimes. Ken Gould with the NWS in Tallahassee, Florida is the focal point for regime designation in Florida.  Imagery are archived at CIRA for future processing.  The data collection and regime designation ran from June through August.

A manuscript on the Sea Breeze Climatology, entitled “High Resolution GOES -8 Visible and Infrared Cloud Frequency Composites over Northern Florida during the Summers 1996-1999” by B. Connell, K. Gould, and J. Purdom, has been accepted for publication in Weather and Forecasting.  The paper highlights the results of a regime-based sea breeze cloud frequency climatology designed to aid forecasters in predicting the timing and extent of convection under various background wind regimes.

Processing of the U.S. climatologies continues more or less on schedule.  Products completed include monthly large sector composites for June, July and August 2001, and wind regime composites for May, June and July 2001.  Monthly wind regime composites covering the past four years has been completed for June and July 2001.  Four year May composites have been postponed due to lack of student help for the past three months.

The final report for the Wakefield Satellite Climatology project has been completed and sent to COMET.  This report will eventually be posted on the COMET website. In addition, a manuscript for an AMS Satellite Conference poster covering the Wakefield project was submitted.