A Simulation of Weather in 3D Space.

Abstract

A stochastic simulation process, known as the 3D-Boehm Sawtooth Wave model has been developed. It has greater versatility than previously applied models. For a real cloud cover, the input consists of the mean sky-cover and a scale parameter, depicted as a characteristic wavelength. The algorithm has been written and programmed to map the simulated clouds horizontally, or in vertical cross-section. Since the model requires climatology in the vertical, a procedure has been developed which takes the cumulative sky-cover as seen by a surface observer and produces estimates of mean cloudiness within any specified layer. Keywords: Cloud cover; Sawtooth wave model; CFLOS (Cloud-free line of sight); New England.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 16, 1984
Accession Number
ADA155221

Entities

People

  • I. I. Gringorten

Organizations

  • Air Force Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Atmospheric Sciences
  • Central Europe
  • Classification
  • Climatology
  • Cloud Cover
  • Grids
  • New England
  • Observers
  • Phase
  • Probability
  • Probability Distributions
  • Security
  • Simulations
  • Three Dimensional
  • Two Dimensional
  • Weather Forecasting

Readers

  • Atmospheric Science / Meteorology, specifically Wind Wave Turbulence.
  • Climatology
  • Computer Science.

Technology Areas

  • Space