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Back Climatology Analysis to Support Skye System Operation

Fiscal Year 2015
Division Graduate School of Engineering & Applied Science
Department Meteorology
Investigator(s) Frederickson, Paul A.
Sponsor Naval Undersea Warfare Center-Newport Division (Navy)
Summary This research and development effort will support Skye system operations by producing state-of-the-science climatological databases that describe historical optical turbulence and visibility conditions. These databases will be used for system design and tactical employment studies which take into account the impact of the atmosphere on optical and infrared system performance. Optical turbulence will be parameterized by the index of refraction structure parameter (Cn2), which will be computed from climatological datasets of basic meteorological parameters using the NPS-developed Navy Atmospheric Vertical Surface Layer Model (NAVSLaM). The climatological dataset used will be the NCEP Climate Forecast System Reanalysis (CFSR), although other candidate datasets will also be considered. Potential visibility datasets will be analyzed and selected in collaboration with the Naval Research Laboratory, Monterey. The databases will be produced for regions of operational importance to the U.S. Navy for different seasons and times of day, and will include full statistics, including means, percentiles, frequency of occurrence of exceeding selected threshold values, histograms and other products.
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