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Artillery of some NATO armies, especially of the former
Eastern bloc states, still use the non-standard METEO11
meteorological messages for firing data calculations. If these
countries are unable to carry out comprehensive meteorological
soundings, the other states in the multinational task forces can
distribute them the METB3 and METCM meteorological
messages, standardized in NATO. There is a problem that they
do not have adapted their fire control systems for using the
METB3 or METCM meteorological messages and therefore
they cannot be adequate partners for other NATO countries.
This long-term incompatibility is caused by different model of
tabular atmosphere and non-standard firing tables. In order for
these countries to become fully interoperable partners in
NATO, it was necessary to carry out a research to compile the
METEO11 meteorological message from standardized
meteorological products available to all NATO partner states.
The paper summarizes the results of this research and analyses
the accuracy of developed METEO11 alternative methods.
Solving of the problem lies on the ability to compose
METEO11 meteorological message according to an abstract of
a measured meteorological data and in the ability to carry out
conversions of the METB3 or METCM meteorological
messages. Authors had derived all needed mathematical
models, which they implemented into the new software
“METEO11 MAKER” and “METCM & METB3 to
METEO11”.
