User's Manual for SAG-2 SHARC/SAMM Atmosphere Generator

Abstract

The SHARC Atmosphere Generator (SAG) is a stand-alone, interactive program that utilizes a combination of empirical models to generate atmospheric profiles for Air Force IR radiation codes that account for systematic variability of the atmosphere, including solar terminator effects. Using information on the day of the year, local time, solar and geomagnetic activity indices, etc., SAG reasonably models the variabilities in temperature and CO2, O3, OH, NO3, H2O and O densities. For other species, diurnally averaged profiles are derived from recent climatology databases or other standard tabulations. The SAG output files support SHARC, SAMM, and MODTRAN.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 14, 2003
Accession Number
ADA420940

Entities

People

  • James H. Brown
  • James W. Duff
  • Robert M. Shroll
  • Steven Adler-golden

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Atmospheres
  • Climatology
  • Databases
  • Diurnal Variations
  • Generators
  • High Latitudes
  • Latitude
  • Longitude
  • Mass Spectrometers
  • Measurement
  • Military Research
  • Radiation
  • Spacecraft
  • Standards
  • Water Vapor

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Computer Science.
  • Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Modeling, Data Assimilation, and Flux Boundary Layers
  • Spectroscopy.