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AMU Final Reports

The AMU produces Final Reports for a majority of tasks.

The AMU staff produces Final Reports for the majority of all assigned tasks. Some of the AMU task summaries were written as memoranda instead of final reports and are not available for public release.

The final reports are organized by three major categories. Clicking on one of the categories listed below will take you directly to that final report list on this page.

+ Short-term Forecast Improvement
+ Instrumentation and Measurement Systems Evaluation
+ Mesoscale Modeling

 

 

AMU Final Report Archive

Short-term Forecast Improvement

FY16

• Wind Change Distributions of Doppler Radar Wind Profiler Observations

FY14

• Vandenberg Air Force Base Climatology Database
• First Cloud-to-Ground Lightning Timing Study
• Assessing Upper-level Winds on Day-of-Launch at Vandenberg Air Force Base and Wallops Flight Facility

FY13

• Vandenberg Air Force Base Pressure Gradient Wind Study
• Severe Weather Tool using 1500 UTC Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Soundings
• Objective Lightning Probability Forecasts for East-Central Florida Airports

FY12

• Assessing Upper-level Winds on Day-of-Launch
• Objective Lightning Probability Forecasting for Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Phase IV
• Vandenberg Air Force Base Upper-Level Wind Launch Weather Constraints

FY11

• 30 WS North Base Wind Study
• Peak Wind Forecasts for the Launch-Critical Wind Towers on KSC/CCAFS, Phase IV
• Situational Lightning Climatologies for Central Florida: Phase V

FY10

• Objective Lightning Probability Forecasting for Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Phase III
• Peak Wind Tool for General Forecasting, Phase II
• Statistical Short-Range Guidance for Peak Wind Forecasts on KSC/CCAFS, Phase III

FY09

• Situational Lightning Climatologies for Central Florida: Phase IV

FY08

• Completion of the Edwards Air Force Base Statistical Guidance Wind Tool
• Anvil Forecast Tool in AWIPS Phase II
• Anvil Tool in AWIPS User Guide Phase II
• Peak Wind Tool for General Forecasting
• Situational Lightning Climatologies for Central Florida: Phase III

FY07

• Anvil Tool in the Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System (AWIPS)
• Anvil Tool in AWIPS Users Guide
• Stable Low Cloud Phase II: Nocturnal Event Study
• Objective Lightning Probability Forecast Tool, Phase II
• Situational Lightning Climatologies for Central Florida, Phase II, Part 3

FY06

• Analysis of Rapidly Developing Low Cloud Ceilings in a Stable Environment
• Forecasting Low-Level Convergence Bands Under Southeast Flow

FY05

• Severe Weather Forecast Decision Aid
• Objective Lightning Probability Forecast Tool, Phase I
• Effects of Clouds on Shuttle Imaging
• Tower Mesonetwork Climatology and Interactive Display Tool

FY03

• Statistical Forecast Guidance for SLF Peak Winds
• Land Breeze Forecasting

FY02

• Statistical Forecast Guidance for Peak Winds
• Improved Anvil Forecasting: Phase II

FY01

• Statistical Forecast Guidance for SLF Cloud Ceilings

FY00

• Improved Anvil Forecasting: Phase I

FY96

• Verification and Implementation of Microburst Day Potential Index (MDPI) and Wind INDEX (WINDEX) Forecasting Tools at Cape Canaveral Air Station

FY94

• Artificial Neural Network to Forecast Short-Term Cloud Cover
• Analysis of Rapidly Developing Fog at the Kennedy Space Center

FY93

• Shuttle Landing Facility Cloud Cover Study: Climatological Analysis and Two-Tenths Cloud Cover Rule Evaluation
• Analysis of a Wintertime Northeast Flow Case at KSC

Instrumentation and Measurement Systems Evaluation     Back to top

FY14

• Configuration and Evaluation of a Dual-Doppler 3-D Wind Field System
• Transition Marshall Space Flight Center Wind Profiler Splicing Algorithm to Launch Services Program Upper Winds Tool
• Development of Wind Pair Databases at Kennedy Space Center, Vandenberg Air Force Base and Wallops Flight Facility

FY12

• Dual-Doppler Feasibility Study
• Using GPS Integrated Precipitable Water Vapor to Forecast Lightning on KSC/CCAFS

FY11

• Upgrade Summer Severe Weather Tool

FY10

• Upgrade Summer Severe Weather Tool in MIDDS

FY09

• VAHIRR Cost-Benefit Analysis
• Severe Weather and Weak Waterspout Checklist in MIDDS

FY08

• Anvil Forecast Tool in AWIPS Phase II
• Anvil Tool in AWIPS User Guide Phase II
• Radar Scan Strategies for the Patrick AFB WSR-74C Replacement
• Impact of Local Sensors
• Automated VAHIRR Product (Main Report)
• VAHIRR Installation Guide
• VAHIRR Factory Acceptance Test

FY07

• Anvil Tool in the Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System (AWIPS)
• Anvil Tool in AWIPS Users Guide

FY06

• RSA/Legacy Wind Sensor Comparison Part I: Western Range
• RSA/Legacy Wind Sensor Comparison Part II: Eastern Range

FY03

• MiniSODAR Evaluation

FY00

• Evaluation of Wind Profiler Data
• IRIS Product Recommendations

FY98

• Data Quality Assessment for the 915 MHz Wind Profiler Network
• WSR-88D Cell Trends Final Report

FY97

• LDAR Data Compression and Reduction
• Radar/PIREP Cloud Top Discrepancy Study
• NEXRAD Exploitation Task

FY96

• Cost-Benefit Study for the SLF Meteorological Equipment

FY94

• Comparison of the Scan Strategies Employed by the Patrick Air Force Base WSR-74C/McGill and NWS Melbourne WSR-88D Radars
• Implementation and Evaluation of the New Wind Algorithm in NASA's 50 MHz Doppler Radar Wind Profiler

Mesoscale Modeling     Back to top

FY15

• Real-time Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral Air Force Station High-resolution Model Implementation and Verification

FY14

• Range-specific High-Resolution Mesoscale Model Setup: Data Assimilation

FY13

• Range-specific High-resolution Mesoscale Model Setup

FY11

• MesoNAM Verification Phase II

FY10

• ADAS Update and Maintainability
• Verify MesoNAM Performance
• HYSPLIT Graphical User Interface

FY09

• WRF Model Wind Sensitivity Study at Edwards Air Force Base, CA
• Configuring the HYSPLIT Model for National Weather Service and Spaceflight Meteorology Group Applications

FY07

• WRF Model Sensitivity Comparisons for Warm Season Convection

FY06

• Evaluation of Mesoscale Model Phenomenological Verification Techniques

FY03

• A New Objective Technique for Verifying Mesoscale NWP Models

FY00

• Evaluation of RAMS in ERDAS

FY99

• Prototype LDIS and Central Florida Data Deficiency

FY98

• An Extended Objective Evaluation of the 29-km Eta Model for Weather Support to the United States Space Program

FY97

• Evaluation of the 29-km Eta Model for Weather Support to the United States Space Program

FY96

• Report on the Installation and Evaluation of the Mesoscale Atmospheric Simulation System (MASS)

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