Weather and Environmental Software Tool for System Requirements Investigation

DMS Technology in association with the researchers at the University of Alabama in Huntsville will develop a validated software package that can be used as a system requirement estimation tool to aid the aviation and missile development community in establishing real-world probabilities of encounter of various weather-related events. Phase I would develop the overall philosophy of the software hierarchy as to what methodology, codes, techniques and weather databases would be used to produce a weather assessment and optimization software. The elements of the software will include trajectory simulation, a library of events, probability of encounter based on large weather database information, assessment of worst-case launch points/flight paths, flexible input/output capability to interface with other codes, and useful output plotting routines. Phase II would extend the above capability to include accurate definitions of weather and be checked against measured storm and event data in order to produce validated software.