Accession Number:

AD0653203

Title:

A METHOD FOR FITTING LINEARLY SEGMENTED MULTI-LAYER ATMOSPHERIC MODELS TO AN ARBITRARY SET OF UPPER AND LOWER BOUNDARY CONDITIONS

Descriptive Note:

Scientific rept.

Corporate Author:

GCA CORP BEDFORD MA GCA TECHNOLOGY DIV

Personal Author(s):

• Minzner, R. A.

Report Date:

1967-03-01

Pagination or Media Count:

24.0

Abstract:

Any set of temperature, pressure and density values which are realistic for one altitude can be exactly connected to another set of temperature, pressure and density values at a second altitude, with a model atmosphere defined by the appropriate linearly segmented two-layer temperature- altitude profile provided one of these layers is isothermal and the second is a nonzero constant gradient of temperature with respect to height. The altitude comprising the intersection of the two segments of the required temperature- altitude profile is determined mathematically. The method for generating two- layer models is applied to the generation of three-layer and four-layer models.

Descriptors:

• *ATMOSPHERE MODELS
• LINEAR SYSTEMS
• DENSITY
• SYNTHESIS
• ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE
• ALTITUDE

Subject Categories:

• Atmospheric Physics

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE