SERCAA Cloud Analysis Integration: Design Concepts and Interaction with Cloud Forecast Models

Abstract

A new cloud analysis model to eventually replace the Real-Time Nephanalysis operating at the Air Force Global Weather Central is being prototyped. This new cloud analysis model will process multisource satellite data, geostationary and polar-orbiting, civilian and military. The output will be used primarily to initialize cloud forecast models but may be used also for climate research and other applications. This report will review the customer requirements for cloud analysis data, the existing and future cloud forecast algorithms, and how the new cloud analysis model can integrate the multisource satellite data into one coherent analysis useful to all users. The likely approach for this 'analysis integration' will be to blend optimum interpolation techniques, common in numerical weather analysis, with a knowledge base commonly used in artificial intelligence.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 16, 1993
Accession Number
ADA269104

Entities

People

  • Ross Hoffman
  • Thomas M. Hamil

Organizations

  • Atmospheric and Environmental Research, Inc

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Algorithms
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Artificial Satellites
  • Atmospheric Sciences
  • Climate Change
  • Cloud Cover
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Databases
  • Information Science
  • Meteorological Satellites
  • Meteorology
  • Standards
  • Stratified Fluids
  • Trajectories

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Atmospheric Science/Meteorology
  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Geospatial Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence Analytics

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML
  • AI & ML - DoD AI Strategy
  • Space