Abstract: This report presents results of studies performed at White Sands Missile Range, N. Mex., to determine the optimum data sampling period for obtaining representative (average) surface winds for use in prelaunch real-time ...

Abstract: The character of temperature and moisture gradients in the atmospheric surface layer is shown to be related to the intensity of visual distortions or ?blurring? of images routinely detected by electo-optical systems and ...

Abstract: Advantages of using a fast sampling rate for providing raw data for computing wind velocities from pilot-balloon observations are discussed. Two independent approaches show that (for a given sampling rate) the errors in ...

Abstract: A real-time meteorological system which has been developed by the U.S. Army Electronics Command, Atmospheric Sciences Laboratory at White Sands Missile Range, is described. The system was designed for computation and ...

Abstract: No abstract available.

Abstract: The surface energy balance directly affects vertical gradients in temperature and specific humidity within the atmospheric surface layer, and these gradients influence optical turbulence. This study was conducted to improve ...