A Case Study of the Monterey Bay Sea Breeze on 25 August 1997.

Abstract

On 25 August a controlled burn on the former Fort Ord property raged out of control. The sea breeze was responsible for transporting the acrid smoke into the Salinas Valley. The PSUINCAR mesoscale model, MMS, was run at 4 km grid resolution twice using two different PBL schemes (MRF and Burk-Thompson) and then verified by observations from several local mesoscale networks, including wind profiler data. The MM5 simulation was able to depict the 3-D structure of the sea breeze and differentiate between the local mountain- valley forcing and the large-scale sea breeze forcing. These two individual forcing mechanisms were responsible for an observed double surge in the time series of winds at Fort Ord. Further investigation is needed into the surface parameterization/land use tables to improve the surface forcing.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1998
Accession Number
ADA356525

Entities

People

  • Steven M. Taylor

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Boundary Layer
  • Case Studies
  • Geography
  • Grids
  • Meteorology
  • Mountains
  • Observation
  • Pacific Ocean
  • Ridges
  • Sea Breeze
  • Simulations
  • Temperature Gradients
  • Terrain
  • Three Dimensional
  • Topography
  • Two Dimensional
  • Wind

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Atmospheric Science/Meteorology
  • Energy Conservation and Renewable Energy Engineering.