Re: Re: WIND_TALK digest 193

From: Kirk Lindstrom (kirk@hpmsd3.sj.hp.com-DeleteThis)
Date: Mon Jan 29 1996 - 10:05:43 PST


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From: Kirk Lindstrom <kirk@hpmsd3.sj.hp.com-DeleteThis>
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Subject: Re: Re: WIND_TALK digest 193

Agreed....
Forgot to mention that our tax dollars paid for it.
Looks like I got something useful after all these yrs of paying
em....8-)

Kirk out

> it does look pretty hot and seems the credits ought to get advertised. From the
> web page...
>
> Jeff
>
> CREDITS
>
> The analysis and display of wind patterns (near real-time) in the San Francisco
> Bay Area are the result of a co-operative effort of the U. S. Geological
> Survey, San Jose State University, SRI International, and the National Weather
> Service. These groups engaged independently in some aspects of this project
> that constituted the results displayed on this web page.
>
> Sequence of events: The Meteorology Department at San Jose State University
> (Prof. Douglas Sinton and Alan Becker) receives the near real-time wind
> observations provided by the National Weather Service, Pacific Gas and Electric
> Company, and the Bay Area Air Quality Management District. At San Jose State
> University, the original data are assembled, checked, formatted, and then
> supplied to the Water Resources Division, U. S. Geological Survey in Menlo
> Park, California. The near real-time wind pattern for the San Francisco Bay
> Area is calculated from these data using the "Winds on Critical Streamline
> Surfaces (WOCSS) model" described by Ludwig et al. (1991)*. This web-page is
> developed, designed, and supported by Jonathan B. Feinstein, a staff member of
> the Project "Hydrodynamics of Tidal Estuaries," (Project Chief, Ralph T.
> Cheng), Water Resources Division, the USGS in Menlo Park, California.
>
> *Ludwig, Frank L., J. M. Livingston, and R. M. Endlich, 1991, Use of Mass
> Conservation and Critical Dividing Streamline Concepts for Efficient
> Objective
> Analysis of Winds in Complex Terrain, J. Of Applied Meteorology, Vol. 30, No.
> 11, pp.1490-1499.
>
> Acknowledgments: The U. S. Geological Survey (Dr. Ralph T. Cheng) has a need of
> real-time wind pattern for the San Francisco Bay Area in connection with a
> partnership Project, "Current Pattern Analysis for Oil Spill Response", between
> the USGS and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The
> development of this web-page (Jonathan Feinstein) is motivated and funded by
> the USGS and NOAA Partnership Project.
>
> Funding for the Meteorology Department at San Jose State University (Prof.
> Douglas Sinton) was provided by the University Corporation for Atmospheric
> Research through the COMET outreach program. The WOCSS model (Dr. Frank Ludwig)
> was developed at SRI International with support from the U. S. Army.
>



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