MEASUREMENTS OF METEOROLOGICAL PARAMETERS AND RADIO REFRACTIVITY IN THE CARIBBEAN
Abstract
A series of meteorological measurements was made in the northern part of the Caribbean Sea during the spring of 1969, to characterize the Trade Wind Inversion and its effect on radio wave propagation. Among the measurements made were data collected from the sensors on the airborne platform of the USAF C-131 Convair (37812), which was provided for use on this contract. The report is a compendium of some of the airborne data, namely of the processed digital records of air temperature, air pressure, refractivity, water vapor pressure and potential temperature. These values are presumed as absolute quantities which have been corrected to compensate for the effect of aircraft motion and thermal expansion of the microwave refractometer sensing cavity.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Nov 01, 1969
- Accession Number
- AD0701023
Entities
People
- J. R. Herlihy
- L. G. Rowlandson
- R. J. Aldrich
Organizations
- SRC Inc.