Characterization of the Wind Field at the Aerial Cable Test Capability Site.

Abstract

The U.S. Army is building a tent facility in which targets will be suspended or dropped from a 5-km-long aerial cable strung between two mountain ranges across a valley. The facility known as the Aerial Cable Test Capability, will be located near Jim Site in the north central part of White Sands Missile Range. During the winter and spring of 1992, four meteorological towers, a Doppler sonar, and a rawinsonde system were deployed in the area to collect atmospheric data. Statistics of these data are presented to show the characteristics of the wind field at the facility and help decide which meteorological equipment would be appropriate to support missions there.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 1994
Accession Number
ADA288437

Entities

People

  • John Fox
  • Richard Okrasinski
  • Robert Olsen

Organizations

  • New Mexico State University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Altitude
  • Artillery
  • Atmospheric Sciences
  • Birds
  • Environment
  • Instrumentation
  • Measurement
  • Military Research
  • Mountains
  • Radiosondes
  • Solar Panels
  • Space Sciences
  • Space Systems
  • Test Facilities
  • Warfare
  • Wind Direction

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Aerospace Test and Evaluation
  • Atmospheric Science/Meteorology
  • Electrical Engineering