A Month-By-Month Study of the Elevated Duct Between San Diego and Hawaii (Project Tradewinds IV). IX. Synopsis of August 21-26, 1961 Flight.

Abstract

Project Tradewinds IV is primarily a meteorological program to study the characteristics of the trade-wind inversion pertinent to radio propagation. The program consists of a series of twelve monthly round-trip flights between the San Diego and Honolulu areas. The report covers one of the twelve monthly flights and represents the ninth in the series. The monthly flights are made in one of the Naval Research Laboratory's Flying Laboratories, a WV-2 Super Constellation aircraft.

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 03, 1963
Accession Number
ADA009752

Entities

People

  • Charles G. Purves

Organizations

  • United States Naval Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Buildings And Structures
  • Constellations
  • Electromagnetic Wave Propagation
  • Flying Laboratories
  • Inversion
  • Military Research
  • Research Facilities

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Business Analytics
  • Oceanography.
  • Wave Propagation and Nonlinear Chaotic Dynamics.