Supplementary material to “Unique Meteorological Data During Hurricane Ike's Passage Over Houston”
Published 23 June 2009
Gunnar Schade, Texas A&M University, College Station
Bernhard Rappenglück, University of Houston, Houston, Texas
Citation:
Schade, G., and B. Rappenglück (2009), Unique Meteorological Data During Hurricane Ike's Passage Over Houston, Eos Trans. AGU, 90(25), 215. [Full Article (pdf)]
Fig.1. (a) Hurricane Ike's path through the Houston, Tex., metropolitan area overlaid with a Nexrad Doppler weather radar image (courtesy of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) from 3:30 A.M. Central Standard Time (CST). (b) The Houston Yellow Cab (HYC) tower. (c) Pressures and rain totals (light gray curve) from the HYC site. (d) One-minute (black curve) and 10-minute (gray curve) mean wind speeds from the HYC site and (e) from the University of Houston (UH) site, with wind direction depicted by arrows (a downward facing arrow means wind from the north). (f) Longitudinal turbulence intensity for the UH site (gray curve) and HYC site (black curve) using 10-minute means and standard deviations. (g) Ten-minute standard deviation (sd, smoothed) of wind directions (wdir) for the UH site (gray curve) and the HYC site (black curve). (h) Composite of measured u*2 and turbulent kinetic energy (TKE) values from the wind speed gradient using the logarithmic wind law (u*2, 10-minute periods; black curve, all data; gray circles, only data outside 30° from north), and the sonic anemometer (15-minute periods; open squares, u*2; open black circles, TKE). All times are CST.
