The Modeled Ceiling and Visibility (MODCV) Program

Abstract

This document describes USAFETAC's Modeled Ceiling and Visibility (MODCV) computer program. It explains how cumulative distributions of ceiling and visibility are modeled with Weibull and reverse, which are used to produce unconditional probabilities and, with an Orstein-Uhlenbeck process, conditional climatologies for ceiling, visibility, and joint ceiling and visibility. Output is in tabular format by category and time lag. Keywords: Input output processing.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1989
Accession Number
ADA205212

Entities

People

  • Harold A. Elkins
  • James T. Kroll

Organizations

  • Air Force Technical Applications Center

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DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Algorithms
  • Atmospheric Sciences
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Databases
  • Distribution Functions
  • Information Science
  • Markov Processes
  • Meteorology
  • New York
  • Normal Density Functions
  • Probability
  • Probability Distributions
  • Random Variables
  • Stationary Processes
  • Stochastic Processes

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  • Atmospheric Science/Meteorology
  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Statistical inference.