Executive Summary of the Cloud Impacts on DoD Operations and Systems - 1988 Workshop (CIDOS - 88)

Abstract

The purpose of this Executive Summary is to expeditiously inform the entire DoD cloud impacts community, i.e., decision makers, systems developers, program managers, and environmental researchers, of the purpose, presentations, discussions, and conclusions of CIDOS-88. The following summaries are included: (1) cloud impacts on surveillance, studies and analysis, and the post-attack environment; (2) high energy laser cloud interactions; (3) cirrus clouds and lidar detection of clouds; and (4) cloud modeling, prediction, data bases.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1988
Accession Number
ADA345125

Entities

People

  • J. W. Snow
  • T. S. Cress

Organizations

  • Air Force Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Sensors
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Aircrafts
  • Atmospheric Sciences
  • California
  • Cloud Physics
  • Composite Materials
  • Databases
  • Detection
  • Detectors
  • Environment
  • Optical Properties
  • Predictive Modeling
  • Research Facilities
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Three Dimensional
  • United States
  • Warfare

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Atmospheric Remote Sensing.
  • Systems Analysis and Design
  • Technical Research and Report Writing.

Technology Areas

  • Directed Energy