The IMPOWR field program collected surface, tower, and aircraft observations over coastal southern New England, which will broaden our understanding of diurnal coastal flows and improve models for offshore wind power. AUGUST 2016 AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY | AUGUST 2016 | ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. We thank the three anonymous reviewers for their constructive comments that helped improve this manuscript. We acknowledge the support of the Department of Energy (DE-EE0005377) for this research. The

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... ors thank Energy Management, Inc., developer of Cape Wind, for providing access to its offshore meteorological tower for our instruments and to the historical dataset from that tower. We also thank Deepwater Wind, LLC, for use of two lidars for this project and AWS_Truepower for installing and maintaining these lidars.