Appendix A : Observations of mesoscale winds in lower Cook Inlet, Alaska - March 1978
Macklin SA. 1979. Appendix A : Observations of mesoscale winds in lower Cook Inlet, Alaska - March 1978. Pages 402–433. In NOAA and Bureau of Land Management. Environmental assessment of the Alaskan Continental Shelf : annual reports of principal investigators for the year ending March 1979 Vol VII Transport. Outer Continental Shelf Environmental Assessment Program. Boulder, Colorado
(Author's abstract.) Surface wind data were collected and analyzed for the lower Cook Inlet region in March 1978. The dominant surface air circulation is due to pressure gradient forcing along two nearly orthogonal orographic channels. As much as 84 percent of surface air movement observed in lower Cook Inlet can be explained in terms of this flow. Additional mesoscale flows of katabatic and lee wave nature were identified at Kachemak Bay, Cape Douglas, and Augustine Island.
- Type
- Book Chapter
- Authors
- Macklin, S
- Units
- KATM , LACL
- Keywords
- Cape Douglas, Climatology, Kamishak Gap, Katmai National Park And Preserve, Lake Clark National Park And Preserve, lower Cook Inlet, Meteorology, surface winds