WATER VAPOR DISTRIBUTION IN THE SUB-CLOUD TRADE WIND AIR

Abstract

OBSERVATIONS OF THE MIXING RATIO WERE MADE SIMULTANEOUSLY AT THREE LEVELS IN THE SUB-CLOUD LAYER OF THE TRADE WIND EAST OF THE Bahama island of Eleuthera. Three airplanes were equipped with psychrographs capable of yielding significant 3-second averages of the mixing ratio. On 8 days, August 8 to 16, 1960, 41 formation flights were made on east-west or north-south courses, giving 123 series of mixing ratios for analysis. Runs extended over 10 or 20 minutes and the evels were usually 400, 800, and 1200 feet.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1962
Accession Number
AD0271636

Entities

People

  • Andrew F. Bunker

Organizations

  • Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Masses
  • Aircrafts
  • Airplanes
  • Birds
  • Boundary Layer
  • Cloud Cover
  • Cumulus Clouds
  • Data Analysis
  • Equations
  • Long Wavelengths
  • Measurement
  • Meteorology
  • Statistics
  • Temperature Gradients
  • Water Vapor
  • Wet Bulb Temperature
  • Wind Shear

Readers

  • Atmospheric Science/Meteorology
  • Mathematics or Statistics
  • Oceanography.