AIRMAP Sea Breeze Monitoring Network

STATION INFO

DATA FILE

24-Hour Kinematic Field Animation

24-Hour Isentropic Field Animation

Introduction

The sea breeze is an important influence on New England's weather, climate, and air quality.  To understand the sea breeze, Meso-b resolution observations of the isentropic (potential temperature) fields and the kinematic (wind) fields are required. Isentropic fields are used to explore the response of the sea-breeze gravity current, and kinematic fields are used to explore the response of the sea-breeze circulation. 

AIRMAP Sea Breeze Mointoring Network is an automatic Meso-b sea breeze observing network composed of 30 weather stations in the existing UNH, NOAA and DOD weather networks.  This system automatically collects raw data from the 3 networks, convert and interpolate the data, generate hourly mesoscale isentropic and kinematic field plots, create 24-hour animations of each field's evolution. 

This project is being conducted as part of project AIRMAP, a joint project of NOAA and the University of New Hampshire.