PDA-Based Backup System for Generating Marine Corps Artillery Meteorological Messages. Addendum

Abstract

A personal digital assistant (PDA) based application has been developed as a backup system to allow the computation of artillery meteorological messages (see ARL-TN-244 for a discussion of meteorological messages). An inherent part of the message creation is the availabi y of upper atmospheric meteorological data, which is either extrapolated from a surface observation or, in the case of wind vectors, computed via the visual tracking of a pilot balloon (PIBAL). However, in the event of clouds, PIBAL failure, or even the loss of visual contact with the PIBAL, it is possible that insufficient data is available to compute the upper atmospheric wind vectors. In these situations, upper atmosp ric climatological data can be used to augment the PIBAL data (if any) to create a (hopefully) more representative meteorological message(s). This addendum details the algorithms and logic used to incorporate the climatological data in the event there is insufficient PIBAL data.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 2007
Accession Number
ADA469253

Entities

People

  • David Sauter
  • Terry C. Jameson

Organizations

  • United States Army Research Laboratory

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Temperature
  • Algorithms
  • Artillery
  • Backup Systems
  • Computations
  • Computers
  • Dew Point
  • Grids
  • Information Science
  • Marine Corps
  • Meteorology
  • Military Research
  • Observation
  • Personal Digital Assistants
  • Sea Level
  • Standards
  • Wind Direction

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Climatology
  • Computer Science/Computer Engineering/Data Science/Digital Signal Processing.
  • Fluid Dynamics.