NOVAM Evaluation Utilizing Electro-Optics and Meteorological Data from KEY-90

Abstract

An experiment known as KEY-90 took place in the Straits of Florida, from 2 to 19 July 1990. The center of operations was the town of Marathon, which is in the center of the Florida Keys. The experiment's principal objective was to verify the Naval Oceanic Vertical Aerosol Model (NOVAM) and its kernel, the Navy Aerosol Model (NAM), in a tropical ocean scenario. The data collected during KEY-90 included aerosol particle-size distributions, lidar profiles, pertinent meteorological observations, and ocean surface parameters. Shore stations, a boat, buoys, radiosondes, and aircraft provided platforms to obtain these data. These measurements determined the structure of the atmospheric surface boundary layer. This report presents a general overview of these experiments, a description of the data available from KEY-90, and specific examples of these data for 14 July 1990. Naval aerosol model, Meteorological observations, Lidar profiles, Ocean surface parameters.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1993
Accession Number
ADA271722

Entities

People

  • H. E. Garber
  • J. E. James
  • K. Davidson
  • S. G. Gathman
  • W. P. Hooper

Organizations

  • Naval Command, Control and Ocean Surveillance Center

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Air Platforms
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Sensors
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Boundary Layer
  • Data Analysis
  • Diffraction
  • Electro-Optics
  • Electronics Laboratories
  • Measurement
  • Meteorological Data
  • Meteorology
  • Optical Properties
  • Optics
  • Particle Size
  • Particles
  • Scattering
  • Standards
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Weather Stations

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Atmospheric Remote Sensing.
  • Oceanography.