Received: from hplms26.hpl.hp.com by opus.hpl.hp.com with SMTP (1.37.109.8/15.5+ECS 3.3+HPL1.1) id AA18610; Tue, 31 May 1994 08:40:33 -0700 Return-Path: <James.Paugh@Eng.Sun.COM-DeleteThis> Received: from Sun.COM by hplms26.hpl.hp.com with SMTP (1.36.108.4/15.5+ECS 3.3+HPL1.1S) id AA09908; Tue, 31 May 1994 08:42:16 -0700 Received: from Eng.Sun.COM (zigzag.Eng.Sun.COM) by Sun.COM (sun-barr.Sun.COM) id AA10909; Tue, 31 May 94 08:36:46 PDT Received: from jurassic.Eng.Sun.COM (camilla) by Eng.Sun.COM (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA09461; Tue, 31 May 94 08:37:40 PDT Received: from jalama.Eng.Sun.COM by jurassic.Eng.Sun.COM (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA16876; Tue, 31 May 1994 08:36:36 -0700 Received: by jalama.Eng.Sun.COM (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA02556; Tue, 31 May 1994 08:36:39 -0700 Date: Tue, 31 May 1994 08:36:39 -0700 From: James.Paugh@Eng.Sun.COM-DeleteThis (Jim Paugh) Message-Id: <9405311536.AA02556@jalama.Eng.Sun.COM-DeleteThis> To: wind_talk@opus.hpl.hp.com-DeleteThis Subject: Re: 3rd Ave. sensor and histogram X-Sun-Charset: US-ASCII
Wouldn't the San Mateo Bridge make a good location for a 3rd Ave
sensor? Seems to me it would be more in line with the windline.
~Jim Paugh
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> Date: Tue, 31 May 1994 07:23:07 -0700
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> Subject: 3rd Ave. sensor and histogram
>
> Ken
>
> Windsight is going to put sensor up near 3rd avenue. Since there are no
> practical waterfront locations. We are considering using the roof of the new
> Vela Headquarters. The people there think it has pretty clean access to wind
> and is representative or at least correlated with the wind at the launch site
> unless the wind goes too south. Our computers can correct any linear
> difference between the sensor report and reality. Still the site is less than
> ideal.
>
> Do you have any advice or thoughts about this site or ideas on an alterntive
> site
>
> The sensor will provide 3rd avenue wind updates every 20 minutes by phone.
> Using a modem sailors can get histograms plotting the average wind & gusts at
> 3rd avenue every 60 seconds over intervals ranging from 1 hour to 13 hours.
> It will make it easy to watch the wind trend and know when to split from
> work.
>
> Mike Godsey, Tuesday, May 31, 1994
> windfinderKen
>
> Windsight is going to put sensor up near 3rd avenue. Since there are no
> practical waterfront locations. We are considering using the roof of the new
> Vela Headquarters. The people there think it has pretty clean access to wind
> and is representative or at least correlated with the wind at the launch site
> unless the wind goes too south. Our computers can correct any linear
> difference between the sensor report and reality. Still the site is less than
> ideal.
>
> Do you have any advice or thoughts about this site or ideas on an alterntive
> site
>
> The sensor will provide 3rd avenue wind updates every 20 minutes by phone.
> Using a modem sailors can get histograms plotting the average wind & gusts at
> 3rd avenue every 60 seconds over intervals ranging from 1 hour to 13 hours.
> It will make it easy to watch the wind trend and know when to split from
> work.
>
> Mike Godsey, Tuesday, May 31, 1994
> windfinder@aol
>
>
>
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