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Acknowledgments
The author would like to acknowledge:
Dr N. Reiss for advice and assistance and for providing the initial topic for this study.
Joe Kwiatkowski for providing some starting points for the sea breeze background section.
Art Kraus for providing WSR-88D technical specifications.