1. Redstone Met Team
Test Area 1
Meteorological Team Office
UNCLASSIFIED

2. Met Team Functions Daily Forecast for RTC Weather Advisories
Present forecast at Test Range morning briefing.
to various individuals at RTC and Redstone Arsenal.
Provide forecasts to various test facilities at RTC.
Weather Advisories
Lightning within 10 & 20 miles (or other special requirements).
Severe weather (Severe Thunderstorm/ Tornado watches/warnings).
WBGT advisories. (Wet Bulb Globe Temperature is the Army standard for heat stress)
Provide forecast and real-time conditions to forestry personnel for controlled burns.
Provide Demo & Burn site real-time data and forecast conditions.
Climate Data to Customers
Maintain database accessible on the internet.
Data for planning tests.
Web Site
Contains:
Forecast
Current weather conditions on the Test Range. (15 minute updates)
Daily Upper-Air Sounding (When available – normally 12Z Mon-Fri)
Archived Data
Can be accessed by anyone on or off post.
Maintained locally at this time. 2

3. Meteorological Equipment
Doppler Radar DWSR-88S
S Band
Enterprise Electronics Corp (Upgraded to RVP8 and RCP8 by Baron Services March 2007)
Built 1987 Installed at RTC in 1991, new dome and pedestal in 2010
14 ft Parabolic Dish
120 NM Range
1.85° Beam width
Linear Horizontal Polarization
MHz Frequency at 550 KW Output
Outputs: Mean Velocity, Spectral Width, Calibrated Reflectivity
SAMS (Surface Automated Meteorological System)
Designed by Physical Sciences Laboratory, New Mexico State University.
Installed 1986, original computer was HP1000, upgraded to PC- based in 1993.
Campbell Scientifics CR 3000
Currently 12 DCPs (Data Collection Platforms ) in operation, can be easily expanded.
Data remotes via Radio Frequency ( MHz) to CMO/ 900MHz SpreadSpectrum
2 meter portable DCPs can be setup at any location.
Special measurements can be configured to customer needs.
DCPs can measure the following parameters:
Temperature/Humidity (2Meters AGL)
Wind Direction and Speed (2Meters AGL) (Russell Tower – 106 Meters AGL)
Barometric Pressure
Delta T
Visibility
Soil Temperature (Various Depths)
Solar Radiation
Precipitation
Additional Measurements available 3

4. DCP Locations at Redstone
. ASP
. Airfield (pending)
. NASA
Hazard Site . 4

5. Meteorological Equipment
Solar Radiation –
Qualimetrics and Kipp & Zonen
Located at 4 Sites
Visibility
New Vaisala PWD 20 sensors (Range 10 to meters).
Located at 6 sites
WXT510
All-in-one weather sensor by Vaisala. 2 on site
Wind Speed 0-60 mps =/- 0.3 mps Wind Direction 0-360° +/_ 3°
Liquid precipitation 5% Accuracy
Barometric pressure Range hPa Accuracy ±0.5 hPa at °C ( °F)
Air temperature Measurement range °C ( °F)
Accuracy at +20 °C (+68 °F) ±0.3 °C (±0.5 °F)
Relative humidity Measurement range %RH
Accuracy ±3 %RH within %RH ±5 %RH within %RH
Outputs NMEA 0183 V3.0, SDI-12, or ASCII (RS-232/RS422/RS485) 5

6. Meteorological Equipment
Lightning Detection System
Viasala satellite fed lightning strike mapping of 60 mile range
Ingest of local field mil readings from CMO sensor, 5 mile radius
Playback capabilites of historical events
Metbox
Dell Precision™ T7400 Intel® Xeon® Processor
Linux Operating System
NOAAPort data ingest of satellite and NEXRAD images
Utilizes Garp, Nmap, Nwx to display graphics.
Sodar-VT1 Mobile Windlab
Phased array Doppler w/500 watt solar power supply
Local Wind profile from 15m to 300m
System Control and Operation by Laptop Computer
Viasala SPS220 Rawinsonde System
Upper air measuring system utilizing RS92 sondes
Complete profile and stability from surface to 65,000 ft.
Historical database of past events 6

7. Meteorological Equipment
WBGT (Wet Bulb Globe Temperature)
WBGT is the US Army heat stress standard.
5 Custom designed systems located at different areas on Redstone Arsenal.
Stand alone systems easy to use for soldiers in the field to prevent heat injuries.
MOMS Trailer
Portable trailer that can hold fully operational weather station with upper-air capabilities
Can be located anywhere with hard power
Has been utilized at Eglin Air Force Base and Red River Army Depot in Texas
with Redstone personnel for Spartan Motor burns.
Scintillometer - Measures Cn^2
Scintec BLS 900
Range 200 to 5000 meters
Portable LASER Ceilometer – Simrad Model CBL-2
Fixed Laser Ceilometer
Vaisala CL31
5 to 25,000 ft range
Moisture Sensors – Delmhorst
Model G40 for wood
Model DP for plaster
Used for measuring bunker moisture
Ozone Analyzer – Dasibi Model 1008AH
Flow Rate: 2 l/min
Precision: ppm
Linearity: ±0.001 ppm 7

8. Atmospheric Computer Modeling
DAS (Data Acquisition System)
4DWX (Four- Dimensional Weather System)
RTC Site
Click on DCP site/pull down menu
FDDA Model Image Viewer
RT-FDDA (Real Time – Four Dimensional Data Analysis)
Using NCAR computers to run models
WRFmodel Domain 3 (30 to 3.3Km Grid)
3 hour update cycle
MRRD (Multiple Regional Radar Display)
Lightning overlays
Ingest of local observations
JAAWIN
Joint Army AirForce worldwide modeling
72 hour forecast from surface through 55,000 ft
Internet based.
Lightning monitoring
BUFKIT
WRF and GFS modeling profile
48 through 144 hour forecast through 70kFT
Scalable for higher resolution.
Lightning, Hail, and Cloud forecasting.
ANC(AutoNowCaster)
VDRAS wind model profile 975mb to 100mb
Convective initiation and lightning forecast
Convective boundary movement and decay 8

9. Questions??? Contact Us Met Team phone 256-876-2465 DSN 746-2465
Website 9