Publication Date:
2019-07-11
Description:
Sonic detection and ranging (SODAR) systems provide crucial information to meteorologists for advising uninhabited aerial vehicle (UAV) flight crews and mission directors on historical, current, and forecasted wind and turbulence conditions. The SODAR system provided advanced warning of increasing surface winds for an X-38 flight on February 6, 1999. The SODAR system has also provided important postflight data for X-38 engineers to review the performance of the parafoil in the presence of strong wind shears near the surface at landing.
Keywords:
Aircraft Communications and Navigation
Type:
H-2429
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American Meteorological Society; 14-19 Jan. 2001; Albuquerque, NM; United States|AMS 17th Conference on Interactive Information and Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology; Houston, TX; United States
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