HR: 1340h
AN: ED43A-0268    [Abstracts]
TI: Studies of Contrasting Summer Weather Patterns in Northern California
AU: Garcia, O
EM: ogarcia@sfsu.edu
AF: San Francisco State University, Department of Geosciences 1600 Holloway Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94132 United States
AU: * Frieberg, E
EM: izzybee82@yahoo.com
AF: San Francisco State University, Department of Geosciences 1600 Holloway Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94132 United States
AU: Dempsey, D
EM: ddempsey@sundog.sfsu.edu
AF: San Francisco State University, Department of Geosciences 1600 Holloway Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94132 United States
AU: Gonzalez, S
EM: ogarcia@sfsu.edu
AF: Phillip and Sala Burton Academic High School, 400 Mansell Street, San Francisco, CA 94134 United States
AU: Wu, X P
EM: ogarcia@sfsu.edu
AF: Phillip and Sala Burton Academic High School, 400 Mansell Street, San Francisco, CA 94134 United States
AU: Xie, J
EM: ogarcia@sfsu.edu
AF: Phillip and Sala Burton Academic High School, 400 Mansell Street, San Francisco, CA 94134 United States
AB: The weather of San Francisco and the California coast during the summer tends to be cool and cloudy for most of the day. The summer winds come mostly from the ocean and can be very strong during the afternoon. By September, the weather occasionally turns warmer, with mostly clear skies and low humidity. During the warm periods, the winds tend to blow offshore, from the land toward the ocean. In this project, we monitor the weather conditions in northern California from August to October 2004 to better understand how and why the weather in San Francisco changes from cloudy and cool to clear and warm and back again. We analyze the regional patterns of atmospheric pressure and cloud cover using weather data and satellite pictures available at the Weather Graphics and Simulation Laboratory at San Francisco State University and other data sources available over the Internet. Special case studies of particularly warm/clear and cool/cloud events will be discussed.
DE: 0399 General or miscellaneous
SC: Education and Human Resourcese [ED]
MN: 2004 AGU Fall Meeting