A radar analysis of the Delaware sea/bay breeze
| Author(s) | Gilchrist, Justin | |
| Date Accessioned | 2014-06-05T12:13:27Z | |
| Date Available | 2014-06-05T12:13:27Z | |
| Publication Date | 2013 | |
| Abstract | The Delaware sea-breeze circulation is a very influential factor on the climatology of Delaware. The sea-breeze has important implications on the transport of air-pollutants, thermal comfort, aviation, and coastal wind-power generation. This mesoscale density current has been traditionally investigated using a network of Automated Surface Observation Systems (ASOS). This thesis expands upon the traditional methods to introduce a new method to observe and characterize the spatial characteristics of the sea-breeze front using the WSR- 88D weather radar. The sea-breeze is the result of the di fferential heating between the land and sea. This interface and associated scatterers between the two resultant air-masses make the sea-breeze front detectable using the WSR-88D radar platform. To supplement the radar data, high resolution Sea Surface Temperature (SST) composites are utilized to show the influence of the Delaware Bay and coastal ocean water temperatures on the behavior of the sea-breeze front. Behavioral characteristics examined were frontal inland penetration, speed, and shape. | en_US |
| Advisor | Veron, Dana E. | |
| Degree | M.S. | |
| Department | University of Delaware, Department of Marine Studies | |
| Unique Identifier | 880958883 | |
| URL | http://udspace.udel.edu/handle/19716/13023 | |
| Publisher | University of Delaware | en_US |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Sea breeze -- Delaware. | |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Ocean temperature -- Delaware. | |
| Title | A radar analysis of the Delaware sea/bay breeze | en_US |
| Type | Thesis | en_US |