By Lance F. Bosart, William A. Sprigg, National Research Council
ISBN-10: 0309060885
ISBN-13: 9780309060882
Responds to a request from the Administrator of NOAA to envision the meteorological buoy/C-MAN procedure for, basically, its worth in studying present climatic conditions & in supplying climate forecasts & warnings, & to suggest a distribution of gazing structures that may retain crucial climate forecast features.
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In addition to fixed costs, there are further costs associated with applied, technical, and engineering development. NDBC estimates that these developmental costs can range from $500,000 to $750,000 per year for the entire buoy/C-MAN network. As noted by the NDBC, developmental costs must be considered within the context of the entire network. The higher cost number of $750,000 per year is the NDBC estimate of annual development costs associated with the proposed MAROB program. 24 Meteorological Buoy and Coastal Marine Automated Network CHAPTER THREE Applications of Buoy/C-MAN Data Network MARINE FORECAST PROBLEMS The transition from a marine to a continental environment across a coastline involves changes in the air-flow pattern induced by terrain and land use characteristics and differences in temperature and atmospheric stability (NRC, 1992).
In this section, and in this analysis of the buoy/C-MAN network, a scientific perspective has been applied. The separation of weather operations from research is no longer clear. Advances in science and technology are, if not in practice at least in intent, rapidly being transferred to warning and forecast operations. This section presents an overview of some of the significant contributions of buoy/C-MAN data in supporting research and in extending the range of warning and forecast services. The United States arguably faces the world’s greatest weather challenges with the most formidable array of weather extremes and the highest economic stakes.
Model forecasts of convection will be more reliable in a deterministic sense for periods in excess of 2 hours. In comparison to today’s convective forecasts at 2 hours, detailed statistical forecast products will likely have more useful skill, perhaps for periods out to 6–10 hours. Flash floods will likely be statistically anticipated in specific watersheds for longer periods than they are now, perhaps up to 6 hours. Hailfall will be more routinely discriminated from heavy rain as a matter of course in polarimetric radar observations and perhaps be statistically predicted one day in advance in an area-wide susceptibility sense.
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