This is a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LAB HANSCOM AFB MA SPACE VEHICLES DIRECTORATE report procured by the Pentagon and made available for public release. It has been reproduced in the best form available to the Pentagon. It is not spiral-bound, but rather assembled with Velobinding in a soft, white linen cover. The Storming Media report number is A353263. The abstract provided by the Pentagon follows: These Proceedings contain the papers presented at the first Battlespace Atmospheric and Cloud Impacts on Military Operations (BACIMO) conference held at Hanscom Air Force Base, Massachusetts, December 1-3, 1998. The Air Force Research Laboratory Battlespace Environment Division at Hanscom hosted the 1998 conference. BACIMO conferences are convened annually at the request of the Assistant for Battlespace Environments Office of Defense Research and Engineering and are co-sponsored by the Air Force Research Laboratory, the Army Research Laboratory, and the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center (SPAWAR). BACIMO brings together the two previously separately-held Battlespace Atmospheric (BAC) and Cloud Impacts on DoD Operations and Systems (CIDOS) conferences. The conference objective is to enhance cooperation and coordination among U.S. military services, the civilian community, and allied nations in developing technology to specify and predict atmospheric and cloud impacts on military operations. This three-day conference had over 65 presentations including video and computer demonstrations organized according to the following 9 sessions: Program Overviews; Cloud and Cloud Effects Models; Radio Propagation; Measurements of Clouds and Cloud Parameters; Modeling and Simulation (M&S) of Atmospheric and Cloud Effects; Measurements and Modeling of EO Parameters; Decision Aids; Battlespace Sensing Techniques and Applications; and Meteorological Modeling and Data Assimilation.
