Formulation and Fitting Techniques for Whole-Atmosphere Empirical Models
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1. An atmospheric modeling device, comprising:
- a data collator configured to;
receive atmospheric data from a plurality of sources, andcollate and weight the data; and
a parameter estimator configured to;
estimate a plurality of parameters, wherein the plurality of parameters includes parameters for an effective mass profile, andtune the parameters to the data, thereby generating a plurality of coefficients.
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Abstract
Systems and methods are provided for obtaining an empirical model of a planetary atmosphere as a function of the independent variables in a parametric formulation. Embodiments of the present disclosure can represent the temperature and individual species densities of the planetary atmosphere in the formulation, can robustly and efficiently carry out the computations needed to evaluate this formulation and to estimate the formulation'"'"'s parameters, and can thereby obtain the empirical model of the planetary atmosphere.
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1. An atmospheric modeling device, comprising:
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a data collator configured to; receive atmospheric data from a plurality of sources, and collate and weight the data; and a parameter estimator configured to; estimate a plurality of parameters, wherein the plurality of parameters includes parameters for an effective mass profile, and tune the parameters to the data, thereby generating a plurality of coefficients. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. A method, comprising:
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receiving, using an atmospheric modeling device, atmospheric data from a plurality of sources, and collating, using the atmospheric modeling device, the data; weighting, using the atmospheric modeling device, the data; estimating, using the atmospheric modeling device, a plurality of parameters, wherein the plurality of parameters includes parameters for an effective mass profile; and tuning the parameters to the data, thereby generating a plurality of coefficients. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. An atmospheric modeling device, comprising:
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a data collator configured to; receive atmospheric data from a plurality of sources, collate the data, and weight the data based on statistical significance of data from each source in the plurality of sources; a parameter estimator configured to; determine an empirical formulation for representing the data, wherein the empirical formulation includes an effective mass profile formulation for the effective mass profile, and wherein the effective mass profile identifies a transition from a first point in an altitude where major species in the air are mixed to a second point in the altitude where the major species are diffusive, estimate, based on the empirical formulation, a plurality of parameters, wherein the plurality of parameters includes parameters for an effective mass profile, and tune the parameters to the data, thereby generating a plurality of coefficients; and a client, wherein the client is configured to; receive an input from a user, and generate, based on the input and the plurality of coefficients, an output comprising an exosphere temperature, a plurality of temperatures at a plurality of altitudes, a plurality of major species in the air, and a total mass density of the major species. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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