Interlevel Correlations of Temperature and Density, Surface to 60 KM

Abstract

Statistical techniques have been developed which can be used to determine the effect of density and temperature on the trajectories of reentry vehicles for altitudes between the surface and 60 km. Arrays of monthly means and standard deviations of density and temperature at 2-km intervals of altitude to 60 km, together with interlevel coefficients of correlation of density with density and temperature, are provided for the mid-season months (January, April, July, October) at 10 locations between latitudes 8 deg. and 64 deg. N. These data are in format that can be easily used to estimate the distributions of vertical density and temperature gradients and the effects of day-to-day density variations on the trajectories of reentry vehicles.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 14, 1980
Accession Number
ADA090515

Entities

People

  • Allen E. Cole
  • Arthur J. Kantor
  • Eugene A. Bertoni

Organizations

  • Air Force Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aerospace Craft
  • Air Force
  • Altitude
  • Ascension Island
  • Atmospheric Density
  • Coefficients
  • High Latitudes
  • Impact Point
  • Latitude
  • Plastic Explosives
  • Reentry Vehicles
  • Regions
  • Surface Temperature
  • Temperate Regions
  • Temperature Gradients
  • Trajectories
  • Vehicles

Readers

  • Atmospheric Science/Meteorology
  • Thermal Physics or Thermal Science.