NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) : An pdf

NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) : An

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Continuous horizontal wind speed measurements were processed and classified as a function of tower level (10, 18, 60, and 150 meters) and period of reference day, month, season: winter (October through March) and summer (April through September), and annual. Tabulations were made of the daily maximum horizontal wind speed, time of ocurrence, and five associated parameters: mean horizontal wind speed, maximum vertical gusts (i.e., updraft and downdraft), and mean and instantaneous directions. Analyses using these data included means, extremes, standard deviations, and frequency distributions. Comparisons of intensity of maximum horizontal wind speeds determined in this year of data are made with maximum values recorded at Kennedy Space Center during another non-hurricane-occurrence year (1967) and with values during 1966 through 1972 when six hurricanes affected the area after the Ground Winds Tower facility became operational. Wind flow in the lowest 150 meters of the atmosphere was measured for the identification of hazards involved in wind shear encounter relative to ascent and descent of the space shuttle and conventional aircraft

• Creator/s: NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS
• Date: 3/1/1978
• Year: 1978
• Book Topics/Themes: NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS), CAPE KENNEDY LAUNCH COMPLEX, GROUND WIND, TOWERS, WIND VELOCITY, FLIGHT HAZARDS, SPACE SHUTTLES, STATISTICAL ANALYSIS, WIND DIRECTION, WIND SHEAR, Alexander, M. B

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