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Minimum Energy Routing through Interactive Techniques (MERIT) modelingThe MERIT program is designed to demonstrate the feasibility of fuel savings by airlines through improved route selection using wind observations from their own fleet. After a discussion of weather and aircraft data, manually correcting wind fields, automatic corrections to wind fields, and short-range prediction models, it is concluded that improvements in wind information are possible if a system is developed for analyzing wind observations and correcting the forecasts made by the major models. One data handling system, McIDAS, can easily collect and display wind observations and model forecasts. Changing the wind forecasts beyond the time of the most recent observations is more difficult; an Australian Mesoscale Model was tested with promising but not definitive results.
Document ID
19880008721
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Contractor Report (CR)
Authors
Wylie, Donald P.
(Wisconsin Univ. Madison, WI, United States)
Date Acquired
September 5, 2013
Publication Date
March 1, 1988
Subject Category
Meteorology And Climatology
Report/Patent Number
NAS 1.26:182535
NASA-CR-182535
Report Number: NAS 1.26:182535
Report Number: NASA-CR-182535
Accession Number
88N18105
Funding Number(s)
CONTRACT_GRANT: NAG1-592
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.
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