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Characterizing Short Time-Scale Vector Wind Changes Using 50 Mhz Doppler Radar Wind Profiler Observations
Lee Burns
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Abstract
KSC Weather asked MSFC Natural Environments (MSFC/NE) to characterize short timescale vector wind changes using 50 MHz Doppler Radar Wind Profiler (D50) data.• MSFC/NE will provide results to KSC Weather, who will then provide to various launch programs as an informational tool to highlight risks of using balloon measurements alone for day of launch wind biasing and verification.• Basic methodology was developed through consultations between MSFC/NE and KSC Weather: using D50 archive, identify wind pairs with given time deltas, subset by season, and compute population statistics of vector wind changes for various height domains within the profiles.
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