NEAQS 2004
Meteorological summary for Gulf of Maine
and northern coastal New England
Wayne M. Angevine
16 July
March 21, 2005
General
(From PSU synoptic summary):
Low Pressure through the day tracked NE up the St. Lawrence River
Valley. Low level winds most of the period were SW 5-10 knots over land and
offshore were 10 knots out of the South. Temperatures across the region were
very uniform for the period with low temperatures near 17C, and highs near 25C.
Temperature Summary:
ID/High/Low
KPSM/26/17 (Pease)
44005/18/17 (Gulf of Maine Buoy)
Ozone and CO
Modest levels of CO and ozone were observed at the ship. Ozone had a typical near-source diurnal
cycle.
Figure 1: Maximum 1-h surface ozone from EPA AIRNOW
Footprints
Figure 2: FLEXPART footprint for 0519-0619 UTC
Figure 3: FLEXPART footprint for 1119-1219 UTC
Figure 4: FLEXPART footprint for 1737-1806 UTC
Figure 5: FLEXPART
footprint for 2334 UTC 16 July - 0007 UTC 17 July
Ship track
Note that the ship was stationary ~10 km north of Cape Ann (42.74N
70.66W) from 0000 -1230 UTC.
Figure 6: CO along
the ship track
Figure 7: Ozone along the ship track
Figure 8: Wind
direction along the ship track