The Army AHPCRC project is part of a larger effort undertaken by a consortium of universities to improve battlefield capabilities and readiness.

The AHPCRC's Cray T3E supercomputer at the University of Minnesota

RWIC's foci under the AHPCRC program include the following:
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Chemical and Biological Applications of Mesoscale Atmospheric Modeling, including

• Improvements in objective analysis using the Local Analysis and Prediction System
• Wind motion diagnoses using a cross-correlation analysis technique
• Mesoscale data assimilation for model initialization
• Improvements and applications of land surface modeling

Atmospheric Electromagnetic & Acoustic Effects in Signature Modeling,including

• Development of a response filter to provide better analyses in sparse data regions
• Development of improved atmospheric boundary layer initialization
• Development of improved electromagnetic ray tracing algorithms

Leon Osborne, Paul Kucera, Mark Askelson, John Mewes,and Jeff Tilley are the principal researchers for this contract. Click on their name above to view their homepages, and click on the buttons below to view comments on their current AHPCRC projects: