Range Reference Atmosphere, Fairbanks

Abstract

This range reference atmosphere (RRA) is a statistical model (derived from upper-air observations) of the atmosphere from 0 to 30 km over the Fairbanks range complex. The RRA provides tabulations of monthly and annual means, standard deviations, and skewness coefficients for wind speed, pressure, temperature, density, water vapor pressure, virtual temperature, and dew point temperature. It also gives means and standard deviation for the zonal and meridional wind components and hydrostatic model atmosphere. Methodology is included, along with graphic displays of wind statistics that can be derived from the wind data.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 1991
Accession Number
ADA243314

Entities

Organizations

  • Air Force Technical Applications Center

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Coordinate Systems
  • Databases
  • Department Of Defense
  • Distribution Functions
  • Information Science
  • Metal Matrix Composites
  • Meteorology
  • Normal Distribution
  • Plastic Explosives
  • Probability Density Functions
  • Probability Distribution Functions
  • Probability Distributions
  • Sea Level
  • Stratified Fluids
  • Vapor Pressure
  • Water Vapor

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Atmospheric Science/Meteorology
  • Polar and Arctic Studies
  • Regression Analysis.