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Apollo Landmark Sighting: An Application of Computer Simulation to a Problem in Applied Meteorology
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: A Monte Carlo technique simulates the effects of cloudcover on the performance of the Apollo On-board Navigation System. For each of three simulated Apollo missions, the probability of sighting at least a specific number ...
SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS OF WAKE FORMATION BENEATH AN INVERSION
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: TIROS I photographs reveal striking wake patterns in low clouds to the lee of small islands in the eastern Pacific. These patterns are indicative of standing long gravity waves and provide a means of estimating the wind ...
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