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Wind Tunnel and Field Investigations of Shapes for Balloon Shelters
This report discusses the results of a series of wind tunnel and field tests performed in support of a program to develop a balloon inflation and launch shelter. The study...- publication PDF
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GHOST Balloon Data Volume VIII: Balloon 60TA
Early Global Horizontal Sounding Technique (GHOST) balloon tests have resulted in valuable upper air wind data, particularly in the data-poor mid-latitudes over southern...- publication PDF
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A Spectral Vegetation Radiometer for Airborne Boundary-layer Research
This document presents a comprehensive description of the Spectral Vegetation Radiometer (SVR) used on NCAR aircraft to derive information about the vegetation cover....- publication PDF
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Design of the Eldora Airborne Doppler Radar
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Scientific Ballooning Handbook
This handbook summarizes the current technology of ballooning as completely as possible. Evolution and theory of ballooning, as well as contributions from experts in the...- publication PDF
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Instructor's Handbook on Meteorological Instrumentation
This Instructor's Handbook is the result of an NCAR-sponsored summer colloquium whose purpose is provided useful material to assist instructors in teaching meteorological...- publication PDF
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The NCAR Vertical Wind Tunnel: a Vertical Wind Tunnel for Controlling the Mot...
This report describes a Vertical Wind Tunnel installed at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) for cloud physics research. The main purpose of this installation...- publication PDF
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Fellowship Program in Scientific Computing: Internship Program for Minority S...
This represents a collection of papers written by graduate students participating in the 1975 Summer Fellowship Program in Scientific Computing. This report also includes...- publication PDF
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The measurement of air velocity and temperature using the NCAR Buffalo Aircra...
This report describes methods used to measure air velocity and temperature from an aircraft and their applications to the measuring system on the NCAR Buffalo aircraft. Main...- publication PDF
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Airborne Cryogenic Frost-point Hygrometer User's Guide
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Winter MONEX: U.S. Research Flight Missions, December 1978
This article does not have an abstract or article summary.- publication PDF
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International Workshop on the Airborne Measurement of Wind, Turbulence, and P...
This report summarizes the sessions of the International Workshop on the Airboune Measurement of Wind, Turbulence and Position. It includes oral presentations as well as working...- publication PDF
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Monthly Mean Global Satellite Data Sets Available in CCM History Tape Format
This report describes work completed on the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) project, "Intercomparison of Satellite-Based Global Data Sets with Global...- publication PDF
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Engineering Report on a Dropsonde for Measuring Vertical Wind Velocity in Thu...
This report describes a special dropsonde for measuring and mapping the vertical wind inside thunderstorms. One the possible ways of measuring vertical wind is to drop...- publication PDF
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GHOST Balloon Data Volume IV: Balloon 40B
Early Global Horizontal Sounding Technique (GHOST) balloon tests have resulted in valuable upper air wind data, particularly in the data-poor mid-latitudes over southern...- publication PDF
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Spatial Coherence Retrievals of Cloud Properties for the Fire Marine Stratocu...
The purpose of this note is to provide "quick look" satellite retrievals of cloud properties for the FIRE Marine Stratus IFO, June 29- July 19, 1987. It is hoped that this quick...- publication PDF
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Preprocessing of Airborne Pyranometer Data
Eppley pyranometers are employed to measure the up- and downwelling short wavelength radiation fluxes in the atmosphere. The quality of the data used to investigate the...- publication PDF
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Path-length Sensitivity of the Lyman-alpha Humidiometer
This report provides an analysis of the path-length sensitivity of the Lyman-Alpha Humidiometer.- publication PDF
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The First Moments of the Variance- and Cross-spectra of Standard and Interfer...
This Technical Note was prepared during the author's year-long research stay at NCAR's Atmospheric Technology Division (ATD). It is a translated, revised and slightly extended...- publication PDF
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Balloon Film Performance After Prior Stress
This report describes a series of tests conducted on balloon film material to determine if uneven loading of the balloon film material might cause failure at a stress level...- publication PDF
