Fiscal Year	2009
Division	Graduate School of Engineering & Applied Science
Department	Meteorology
Investigator(s)	Murphree, James T.
Sponsor	45th Weather Squadron (Air Force)
Summary	The objective of this project is to design, develop, and test climatologies of lightning launch commit criteria (LLCC). The climatologies will describe the probability of violating the rules that help mitigate the risk of natural lightning and rocket induced lightning. The climatologies will have high temporal resolution (e.g., sub-daily to daily) and will span all months. The climatologies will be based on observations and reanalysis data (e.g., from NOAA NARR). The climatologies will support mission planning, development of launch forecasts, and assessment of the LLCCs. Potential collaborators include NOAA Climate Prediction Center and 14 WS. We anticipate that NPS graduate students will contribute to this research.
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