Publication Date:
2019-07-20
Description:
Weather balloons have been a longstanding asset to NASA and Aerospace meteorology. Balloons are used from launch vehicle design to day-of-launch operations. One of the most valuable assets from these balloons is wind data from the surface up to 30 kilometers. Due to aloft winds, the balloons may drift downrange of the launch site and vehicle flight path. A 2017 study found balloons at Kennedy Space Center (KSC) can drift as far as 200 kilometers from the launch site (Decker 2017). To obtain robust launch vehicle wind assessments, it is highly desirable to characterize the wind environment along the flight path. This study looks into the errors associated with spatial separation of wind measurements using the North American Regional Reanalysis (NARR).
Keywords:
Meteorology and Climatology
Type:
M18-7121
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Annual American Meteorological Society Conference (AMS 2019); Jan 06, 2019 - Jan 10, 2019; Phoenix, AZ; United States|Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology; Jan 06, 2019 - Jan 10, 2019; Phoenix, AZ; United States
Format:
application/pdf
