Aircraft and Radar Weather Data Analysis for PVM-5. AFCRL/Minuteman Report Number 1.

Abstract

Aircraft and radar weather data recorded for support of the Minuteman PVM-5 test are presented. The link-offset mode was used successfully to obtain radar data for correlation with the aircraft data. The correlation data were quite good, and provided usable relations of reflectivity factor (Z) and water content (M) on five of nine passes. Application of the Z-M relations to the reflectivity data recorded along the re-entry trajectories provided estimates of the water content profile and the weather severity index (WSI) for each of the trajectories.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 23, 1974
Accession Number
ADB004290

Entities

People

  • Arnold A. Barnes Jr.
  • James I. Metcalf
  • Loren D. Nelson

Organizations

  • Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Air Force
  • Aircrafts
  • Altitude
  • Clouds
  • Data Analysis
  • Data Processing
  • Detectors
  • Equations
  • Flight Paths
  • Measurement
  • Particle Size
  • Particles
  • Radar
  • Reconnaissance Aircraft
  • Scattering
  • Trajectories

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

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