SPECIAL PHENOMENA, PRODUCTS, AND COMPUTATIONS

As an Aerographers Mate, you are required to know a great deal about the atmosphere and the weather phenomena within it. One of the primary duties of Aerographers Mates is briefing others on Atmospheric phenomena and their effects on operations.  

Today, Aerographers Mates use many products to help them determine environmental conditions. Most of the products are computer generated and are received via computer networks or are generated in-house, using computer software. Of course, there are still a few manually produced products, such as the Skew T, Log P Diagram.

Although computers do the majority of the computations necessary to produce environmental products, there may be times that you will be tasked with such duties. Computers are not infallible, and they do suffer "downtime." You could be required to compute ballistic winds, atmospheric refractivity, tides, etc., when computers or computer products are not available. Unit 6 is broken down as follows:

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