Accession Number:

AD0747641

Title:

Point Mugu Forecasters Handbook

Descriptive Note:

Corporate Author:

PACIFIC MISSILE RANGE POINT MUGU CA

Personal Author(s):

• Rosenthal, Jay

Report Date:

1972-04-01

Pagination or Media Count:

381.0

Abstract:

Three dominant weather patterns, or regimes, occur at Point Mugu and the local area throughout the year. The stratus regime is the most striking, persistent, and important, from the viewpoint of range operations. It occurs throughout most of the spring and summer, but less frequently in the fall and winter. The Santa Ana regime is the second most important weather pattern. Santa Ana conditions occur during the fall, winter, and spring months and rarely last more than a few days. The third dominant weather pattern, transient synoptic features, includes all the rain-producing storms and fronts and other causes of generally unfavorable weather.

Descriptors:

• *WEATHER FORECASTING
• *CLIMATE
• COASTAL REGIONS
• OCEAN WAVES
• INTERACTIONS
• ATMOSPHERIC MOTION
• VORTICES
• METEOROLOGICAL RADAR
• FOG
• VISIBILITY
• STORMS
• CALIFORNIA
• STATISTICAL ANALYSIS
• GUIDED MISSILE RANGES
• REFRACTION
• RAINFALL
• HANDBOOKS
• CLOUD COVER
• STRATUS CLOUDS

Subject Categories:

• Meteorology

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE