Battlescale Forecast Model Sensitivity Study

Abstract

Expendable sensors might be used on the battlefield to report weather data not in conformance with normal weather sensor placement and accuracy standards. The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of errors in surface measurements on a model forecast initialized with the inaccurate observations. Changes to the surface observations used in the Battlescale Forecast Model initialization led to no significant changes in the resulting forecast values of temperature, relative humidity, wind speed, or wind direction. Some information on the forecast accuracies using the original surface observations is also provided.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2003
Accession Number
ADA410711

Entities

People

  • Barbara Sauter
  • Edgar Pedrego
  • Teizi Henmi

Organizations

  • United States Army Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Sensors
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Battlefields
  • Detectors
  • Errors
  • Expendable
  • Humidity
  • Information Science
  • Measurement
  • Military Research
  • New Mexico
  • Observation
  • Oklahoma
  • Sensitivity
  • Standards
  • Weather
  • Wind
  • Wind Direction

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Climatology
  • Computational Modeling and Simulation