Atmospheric, Biological, Organic & Chemical Aerosols

The Army Research Laboratory Research Associateship Program (ARL-RAP) provides research opportunities in atmospheric, biological, organic, and chemical aerosols. Research is conducted to improve understanding of the atmosphere and its critical relationship to Army Systems performance, to create physically correct models supporting realistic scenes of targets, terrain environments, and cultural features, and to impact standards and protocols of the international modeling and simulation community. The program focuses on physics-based models, three-dimensional visualization, environmental and atmospheric modeling, information processing and presentation in the battle space, intelligent systems, battle space visualization, soldier-centered computer interfaces, advanced display technologies, tactical decision aids, and high-performance computing. The Computational and Information Sciences Directorate (CISD) conducts this research, focusing on communications, atmospheric modeling, battlefield visualization, and computing. The program is designed to significantly increase the involvement of creative and highly trained scientists and engineers from academia and industry in scientific and technical areas of interest and relevance to the Army.