Green Bank Weather Dana S. Balser

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Green Bank WeatherDana S. Balser
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Weather Resources

• Weather Stations
• Weather Forecasts (NOAA/Maddalena)
• Pyrgeometer
• 86 GHz Tipping Radiometer
• 12 GHz Interferometer

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Weather Parameters
1 May 2004 to 1 March 2007
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Wind Speed cumulative distribution function
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Wind Speed -- Forecasts
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Wind Speed smoothed over 60 days
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Wind Speed summer
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Wind Speed winter
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Mean System Temperature
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Atmospheric Opacity
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Effective System Temperature
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Wind Speed structure function
Decorrelation scale 6 hr
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Effective System Temperature structure function
Decorrelation scale 12 hr
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Weather Forecasts PWV and wind speed
Ron Maddalena
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Radio Frequency Interference Weather
Toney Minter
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End
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Wind Speed Day/Night
? Day ?
? Night ?
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Weather Forecasts Wind Speed(Aug 2004 Oct
2006)
Paul Marganian
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Weather Forecasts Effective System Temperature
Freq. 24 GHz Elev. 30 deg.
Mark Clark