Kwajalein reference atmospheres, 1979
Document ID: 51
Cole, Allen E.
Kantor, Arthur J.
Philbrick, C. Russell
USAF, Geophysics Laboratory, Hanscom AFB, Bedford, MA, U.S.A.
Abstract
Measurements of atmospheric temperature, density, and wind have been used to derive consistent hydrostatic models representative of the atmospheric properties at Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands. A mean annual model and 12 monthly models of thermodynamic properties have been constructed between altitudes of 0 and 120 km, using data available up to 1979. Below an altitude of 60 km, the models are based on a data base that is large enough for the monthly variations to be statistically significant. Above 60 km the significance of the monthly models progressively decreases with altitude, because of the small number of high-altitude measurements. The statistical properties of winds have been calculated for altitudes up to 60 km for the midseason months. Although the information used to prepare these models is based primarily on observations made at Kwajalein, some data from other tropical locations have been considered, particularly for such items as the estimates of time and space variations.
The Kwajalein Missile Range (KMR) Reference Atmospheres contains information on the following parameters: temperature, pressure, density, speed of sound, dynamic viscosity, wind speed and direction, relative humidity, optical and radar indices of refraction, mean molecular weight, interlevel correlations of temperature, density, and wind, acceleration of gravity, and magnitudes of diurnal and semidiurnal tidal components of temperature, density, and wind.
| Citation: | "Kwajalein reference atmospheres, 1979", Cole, A. E., A. J. Kantor, C. R. Philbrick, KMR Reference Model, Air Force Systems Command, USAF, 1979, pp. 1 - 110 |