Theater Analysis Procedures (TAP)

Abstract

This report describes the results of a 3 year project for development of a regional analysis system based on the method of optimal interpolation. The TAP project primary objective is to develop robust analysis procedures to support the tactical user. The function of TAP is to combine background (i.e. a priori) information with observations of diverse type, quality, and density to produce analyses of meteorological fields, which are either provided directly to the end user or used as input to other algorithms, such as mesoscale forecast models. The prototype system design and its implementation are described, along with the ancillary climatology and error statistics databases. The results of system tests are described in which real data collected over North America were used for the generation of customized analysis products, and for initialization of the MM5 mesoscale forecast model.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 13, 1997
Accession Number
ADA340975

Entities

People

  • Jeanne Sparrow
  • Min Yin
  • Rose N. Hoffman
  • Stan Ryckman
  • Thomas Nehrkorn

Organizations

  • Atmospheric and Environmental Research, Inc

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Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Coordinate Systems
  • Data Science
  • Databases
  • Geographic Regions
  • Geography
  • Information Science
  • Meteorology
  • North America
  • Operating Systems
  • Shell Scripts
  • Three Dimensional
  • Two Dimensional
  • United States
  • Web Browsers

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Coastal Oceanography
  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Database Systems and Applications