UPPER ATMOSPHERE WINDS FROM GUN LAUNCHED VERTICAL PROBES (BARBADOS, 20-23 SEPTEMBER 1965)

Abstract

On the night of 20-21 September 1965, six luminous trails were produced between 88km and 136km by the release of tri-methyl-aluminum from projectiles fired from a smoothbore sixteen-inch gun located on the West Indian island of Barbados (57.5 degrees W, 13.1 degrees N). An additional five trails were produced during the night of 22-23 September 1965. These trails were photographed from neighboring islands and analyzed to yield wind profiles. The report contains the tabulated wind data from all eleven trails together with plots versus altitude of wind components, wind speed, wind heading, and wind shear components.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1965
Accession Number
AD0662203

Entities

People

  • Robert N. Fuller

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Altitude
  • Atmospheres
  • Atmospheric Refraction
  • Barbados
  • Cameras
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Data Reduction
  • Gun Launched
  • High Altitude
  • Islands
  • Magnetic Tape
  • Sea Level
  • Trajectories
  • Wind
  • Wind Shear
  • Wind Velocity

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Astronomy and Astrophysics.
  • Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Modeling, Data Assimilation, and Flux Boundary Layers
  • ballistics.