AEROSYNOPTIC CONDITIONS OF THE HEIGHT OF THE UPPER CLOUD BOUNDARY ALONG THE TASHKENT-MOSCOW AIR ROUTE,

Abstract

The report concerns the results of an aerosynoptic analysis of a large number (1,550) of flight reports collected along the Tashkent-Moscow air route by crews of TU-104 and IL-18 aircraft with respect to the height of the upper cloud boundary (at levels 5 to 12 km, with most data broken down by 1-km levels). There is a discussion of the characteristic heights of the upper cloud boundary along fronts, in different forms of pressure field, and in relation to advection of different signs, the position of the tropopause and other factors. The data are broken down by warm and cold seasons of the year, since the upper cloud boundary differs sharply in the case of convective clouds. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 12, 1968
Accession Number
AD0683088

Entities

People

  • I. V. Bugaeva
  • N. N. Romanov

Organizations

  • National Air and Space Intelligence Center

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Advection
  • Boundaries

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Atmospheric Science/Meteorology
  • Systems Analysis and Design