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ERDC/CRREL TR-02-10
Table 4 (cont.). Monthly mean and record maximum wind speed for each month.
BET
FRA
IMN
SAG
WKU
Wind
Wind
Wind
Wind
Wind
speed
speed
speed
speed
Day-
Day-
Day-
Day-
Day-
speed
1
(m s1)
(m s1)
(m s1)
(m s1)
(m s )
year
year
year
year
year
LC
Record
Mar.
18.1
28-96
19.0
24-98
20.1
8-95
16.7
27-96
14.9
28-96
max.
Monthly
5.3
4.8
4.0
4.1
4.4
mean
Record
Apr.
14.9
19-96
18.2
27-98
13.7
25-95
18.9
15-97
19.3
15-97
max.
Monthly
4.0
3.5
3.7
3.1
3.4
mean
Record
May
17.7
19-98
19.7
21-98
12.6
4-95
14.5
19-98
13.0
20-98
max.
Monthly
5.6
5.0
3.8
3.9
3.9
mean
WS
Record
Jun.
13.6
4-96
12.0
4-96
17.7
4-96
14.5
4-96
13.4
4-96
max.
Monthly
4.9
4.1
3.9
3.9
3.9
mean
Record
Jul.
14.9
23-98
12.2
24-98
15.1
27-96
13.9
27-96
11.4
27-96
max.
Monthly
5.1
4.3
4.0
4.2
4.0
mean
Record
Aug.
15.2
18-94
15.4
25-97
15.0
20-98
14.3
18-94
17.7
18-94
max.
Monthly
4.8
4.1
4.4
4.0
3.9
mean
west of PRU and FRA is approximately 40 km (25 miles) south of PRU. As PRU
was operated as a privately contracted SAO (surface airways observation), little
is known regarding the data quality and reporting practices for this station.*
Warm Season
During WS BET is clearly the windiest of the sites, in terms of both mean
and peak daily winds, with the remainder of sites showing a great deal of simi-
larity with regard to these mean quantities. BET also has the least dispersion,
*
Personal communication with Ted Fathauer, National Weather Service, Fairbanks, AK.
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