A STATISTICAL MODEL OF THE TEMPERATURE FIELD AT SUPERSONIC AIRCRAFT ALTITUDES

Abstract

Data archives are such that, for a selected cruising level, a reasonably large sample of daily average temperatures along a specific route can be obtained and summarized into a frequency distribution. But if, as in Air Force operations, many different and constantly changing routes are involved, then the climatologic tools and methods must be such as to provide estimates of the route average temperature without recourse to the archives and the processing of raw data. A method was devised that utilizes a model of the horizontal spatial correlations of temperature. It was demonstrated on a continent-wide area, and shows promise of hemisphere-wide application.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 1967
Accession Number
AD0656309

Entities

People

  • Irving I. Gringorten

Organizations

  • Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Air Force
  • Air Force Operations
  • Aircrafts
  • Bodies
  • Classification
  • Continents
  • Data Analysis
  • Frequency
  • Jet Aircraft
  • Latitude
  • New York
  • Security
  • Standards
  • Supersonic Aircraft
  • Supersonic Transport Aircraft
  • United States

Readers

  • Aerodynamics/Aeronautics.
  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Library and Information Science/ Studies, Southeast Asia Studies, Bibliography of Vietnam and Lao Studies.

Technology Areas

  • Hypersonics
  • Hypersonics - Hypersonic Flight