Preliminary Comparison of March-May Radiosonde Soundings with March-May Climatological Profiles for Yuma, Arizona

Abstract

Climatological data are sometimes used in place of actual sounding data for planning and in field tests when sounding data are not available. However, the use of climate mean profiles may lead to wide differences from actual individual atmospheric profiles. This brief report investigates the variation of a series of soundings as compared to climate mean soundings and soundings computed from the sum of the mean 1 or 2 climate-based standard deviations. Sounding data for Yuma Proving Ground (YPG), Arizona, from March to May 2016 were compared with climate data from March to May from 19872016 for YPG. As expected, there was wide variation in the individual profiles that sometimes led to large differences from the climate mean and occasionally exceeded or were less than the climate mean 2 standard deviations, respectively.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 2017
Accession Number
AD1026234

Entities

People

  • J. Cogan
  • P. Haines

Organizations

  • United States Army Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Artillery
  • Climate
  • Computers
  • Data Science
  • Data Sets
  • Field Tests
  • Gaussian Distributions
  • Information Science
  • Military Research
  • Mobile Devices
  • Nato
  • Normal Distribution
  • Radiosondes
  • Standards
  • Statistics
  • Weather Forecasting
  • Wind Direction

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Climatology
  • Military/Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) Technology
  • Regression Analysis.