A METHOD FOR FITTING LINEARLY SEGMENTED MULTI-LAYER ATMOSPHERIC MODELS TO AN ARBITRARY SET OF UPPER AND LOWER BOUNDARY CONDITIONS

Abstract

Any set of temperature, pressure and density values which are realistic for one altitude can be exactly connected to another set of temperature, pressure and density values at a second altitude, with a model atmosphere defined by the appropriate linearly segmented two-layer temperature- altitude profile provided one of these layers is isothermal and the second is a nonzero constant gradient of temperature with respect to height. The altitude comprising the intersection of the two segments of the required temperature- altitude profile is determined mathematically. The method for generating two- layer models is applied to the generation of three-layer and four-layer models.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1967
Accession Number
AD0653203

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  • R. A. Minzner

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  • Air Force
  • Altitude
  • Atmospheres
  • Boundaries
  • Computer Programs
  • Demographic Cohorts
  • Equations
  • Geopotential
  • Intervals
  • Massachusetts
  • Molecular Electronics
  • Molecular Weight
  • Sea Level
  • Segmented
  • Standards
  • Temperature Gradients
  • United States

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  • Physics

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  • Fluid Dynamics.