Characterization of the Wind Field at the Aerial Cable Test Capability Site

摘要

The U.S. Army is building a tent facility in which targets will be suspended ordropped from a 5-km-long aerial cable strung between two mountain ranges across a valley. The facility known as the Aerial Cable Test Capability, will be located near Jim Site in the north central part of White Sands Missile Range. During the winter and spring of 1992, four meteorological towers, a Doppler sonar, and a radiosonde system were deployed in the area to collect atmospheric data. Statistics of these data are presented to show the characteristics of the wind field at the facility and help decide which meteorological equipment would be appropriate to support missions there.