Accession Number:
ADA169746
Title:
Objective Analysis and Prediction Techniques - 1985
Descriptive Note:
Scientific rept. no. 10, 1 Dec 1984-30 Nov 1985
Corporate Author:
SASC TECHNOLOGIES INC LANHAM MD
Personal Author(s):
Report Date:
1985-11-30
Pagination or Media Count:
240.0
Abstract:
This report summarizes weather research in several technical areas in numerical weather prediction, use of supplemental moisture information in global optimum interpolation analysis of humidity, development of a relocatable limited area model in mesoscale forecasting, FOUS guidance error study, forecast guidance displays in boundary layer meteorology, specialized computer programs for studies of atmospheric refractive index, windflow model, troposcatter raytrace models in radar meteorology, detection of synoptic scale wind anomalies, gust front detection, 3-D cloud and precipitation mapping, icing detection, severe storm indicators in satellite meteorology, development of microprocessor-based satellite data ingest system, system design hardware, software for McIDAS upgrade in climatology, data processing and display studies for statistical properties of cumulus cloud structures, spatialtemporal cloud cover distributions from conventional observations, rainfall rate recurrence statistics and cumulus cloud vs. satellite brightness values.
Descriptors:
- *COMPUTER PROGRAMS
- *MATHEMATICAL PREDICTION
- *WEATHER FORECASTING
- ANOMALIES
- ATMOSPHERE MODELS
- ATMOSPHERIC PRECIPITATION
- ATMOSPHERIC REFRACTION
- BOUNDARY LAYER
- BRIGHTNESS
- CLIMATOLOGY
- CLOUD COVER
- CLOUD PHYSICS
- CUMULUS CLOUDS
- DATA PROCESSING
- DETECTION
- DISPLAY SYSTEMS
- ERRORS
- FORECASTING
- FRONTS(METEOROLOGY)
- GLOBAL
- GUIDANCE
- GUSTS
- HUMIDITY
- ICE FORMATION
- INDICATORS
- INTERPOLATION
- LIMITATIONS
- MAN COMPUTER INTERFACE
- MAPPING
- METEOROLOGICAL RADAR
- METEOROLOGICAL SATELLITES
- METEOROLOGY
- MODELS
- MOISTURE
- NUMERICAL ANALYSIS
- OBSERVATION
- OPTIMIZATION
- PRECIPITATION
- PREDICTIONS
- RAINFALL INTENSITY
- RATES
- REFRACTIVE INDEX
- SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION
- STATISTICS
- STORMS
- STRUCTURAL PROPERTIES
- TROPOSPHERIC SCATTER COMMUNICATIONS
- WEATHER
- WIND
Subject Categories:
- Meteorology
- Computer Programming and Software