At Atmospheric Sounding Program: An Analysis and Forecasting Tool for Weather Hazards on the Battlefield

Abstract

To assist the staff weather officer and enhance weather predictions in the battlefield, the Atmospheric Sounding Program (ASP) has been designed to furnish a series of weather outputs with an emphasis on weather hazards such as turbulence, icing, clouds, thunderstorms, and surface visibility. The ASP is initialized by either upper air observations or output from the Battlescale Forecast Model (BFM). The BFM produces a 24 hour forecast: thus, the weather hazard is placed into the database and can be displayed for the 24 hour forecast period.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 1999
Accession Number
ADA365754

Entities

People

  • Jeffrey E. Passner

Organizations

  • United States Army Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Aircrafts
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Boundary Layer
  • Computer Programming
  • Databases
  • Heat Energy
  • Humidity
  • Information Science
  • Lapse Rate
  • Latent Heat
  • Meteorology
  • Military Operations
  • Observation
  • Turbulence
  • Water Vapor
  • Weather Forecasting

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Atmospheric Science/Meteorology