100 Years of Army Artillery Meteorology: A Brief Summary

Abstract

Personnel in armies worldwide have been aware for centuries that the atmosphere may affect the trajectories of all types of projectiles from arrows to artillery. At longer ranges, meteorological error may contribute up to two-thirds of the entire trajectory error budget. This short report briefly summarizes developments in land-based artillery meteorology over approximately the last 100 years in the United States, with a limited reference to related developments in the United Kingdom.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 2018
Accession Number
AD1047829

Entities

People

  • J. L. Cogan

Organizations

  • United States Army Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Ammunition
  • Artillery
  • Atmospheres
  • Computers
  • Information Science
  • Meteorological Data
  • Meteorology
  • Military Research
  • Mobile Devices
  • Munitions
  • Projectiles
  • Second World War
  • Trajectories
  • United Kingdom
  • United States
  • Weather Forecasting

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Systems Analysis and Design
  • Technical Research and Report Writing.
  • ballistics.