Bulletin American Meteorological Society Elterman, L., and A. B. Campbell, 1964: Atmospheric aero- Ligda, M. G. H., 1964: Meteorological observations with . sol observations with searchlight probing. J. Atmos. Sci., Proc. 11th Wea. Radar Conf., Boston, Mass., Amer. Meteor. 21, 457-458. Soc., 482-489. Fiocco, G., and L. D. Smullin, 1963: Detection of scattering Maiman, T. H., 1960: Stimulated optical radiation in ruby. layers in the upper by optical radar. Nature, Nature, 187, 493-494. 199, 1275-1276. Mossop, C. S., 1963: Stratospheric particles at 20 km. Nature, Gibson, F. W., 1966: Some applications of the laser as an 199, 325-326. atmospheric probe. AMS/AIAA National Conference on Aerospace , Los Angeles, Calif. Northend, C. A., R. C. Honey and W. E. Evans, 1966: Laser Goyer, G., and R. Watson, 1963: The laser and its application radar (lidar) for meteorological observations. Rev. Sci. Meas- to meteorology. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 44, 564-590. urements, 37, 393-400. Hellwarth, R. W., 1961: Control of fluorescent pulsations. Schawlow, A. L., and C. H. Townes, 1958: Infrared and op- Advances in Quantum Electronics, New York, Columbia tical masers. Phy. Rev., 112, 1940-1949. University Press, 334-341. White, G. R., L. J. Nugent and L. W. Carter, 1965: Laser at- Junge, C. E., C. W. Chagnon and J. E. Manson, 1961: Strato- mospheric probes. 20th Annual ISA Conf. and Exhibit, pre- spheric aerosols. J. Meteor18, 81-108. print no. 40.1-1-65, Los Angeles, Calif.

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Evan Pugh research professor named at Penn State Dr. Panofsky is an associate editor of both the JOURNAL OF Dr. Hans A. Panofsky, mem- APPLIED METEOROLOGY and the JOURNAL OF THE ATMOSPHERIC ber of the Pennsylvania State SCIENCES. He has served on numerous AMS committees and University faculty since 1951, was a councilor in 1959-1962. was named Evan Pugh re- search professor of atmos- International research experiments pheric sciences in July by the Board of Trustees. Two Brazil, , and Germany joined with the National Aero- Evan Pugh professorships nautics and Space Administration in summer experiments in were established in 1960 1966. to recognize outstanding re- groups in Brazil and Canada supported a search done by faculty mem- series of upper atmosphere experiments in the study of nocti- bers and provide support for lucent clouds. Ten Nike-Cajun sounding with 80-lb the continuation of this re- payloads to obtain synoptic meteorological data were to be search. They honor the first launched from four widely separated sites in the Western president of the University, Hemisphere—Natal, Brazil; Churchill Research Range, Can- Dr. Evan Pugh, a distin- ada; Point Barrow, Alaska, and Wallops Island, Va. The guished research scientist. launchings were to be conducted over a 24-hr period, begin- Holders of the endowed ning at midnight whenever noctilucent clouds appeared over chairs are responsible di- the Churchill area—four payloads from Churchill, and two rectly to the university president. each at the other sites. Dr. Panofsky is noted for his research and publications on Under an agreement by NASA with the German Federal a wide range of topics, including air pollution, vertical mo- Ministry for Scientific Research, a cooperative experiment to tion in the atmosphere, sun spots, planetary , measure electron density in the ionosphere was successfully and meandering of the Gulf Stream. In 1965 he received the carried out on 14 July at Wallops Island. A variable fre- AMS Meisinger Award for his research contributions to me- teorology and its applications to forecasting. quency impedance probe was carried to a height of 121 Born in Cassel, Germany, Dr. Panofsky was graduated from statute miles by a Nike-Apache sounding . NASA Princeton University and received his Ph.D. from the Uni- furnished the rocket and two radio propagation experiments versity of California. During summer vacations he held re- in the 52-lb payload. The German experiments were under search positions at Princeton, Woods Hole Oceanographic Prof. Karl Rawer, director of the Ionospheric Institute of Institution and UCLA. On leave from Penn State during the Breisach, Germany, and K. G. Jacobs, German project past spring term, he taught and conducted research at the manager. University of Washington in Seattle. (More news and notes on page 711)

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(Continued from news and notes, page 701) Bureau of Reclamation appointments at Denver "Our scientifically controlled atmospheric experiments are showing considerable promise so far," Commissioner Dominy Dr. Archie M. Kahan was continued, "and I am very hopeful that further research appointed chief of the Office under Dr. Kahan and Dr. Stinson will lead to establishing of Atmospheric Water Re- practical means of increasing our supplies of water from the sources, Bureau of Reclama- atmosphere." tion, Denver, Colo., in Janu- Under contract with nine educational institutions, five pri- ary 1966, succeeding Walter vate meteorological organizations, and one State agency, the U. Gartska, who had retired Bureau is conducting investigations on increasing the yield after 31 years of Government of water from atmospheric sources in eight of the western service. Dr. Kahan, in turn, . Cooperative agreements are in effect with sev- is succeeded in his former po- eral Federal agencies concerned. The Bureau also has close sition as physical scientist by working relationships with the National Science Foundation Dr. J. Robert Stinson from and the National Center for Atmospheric Research at Boul- the Naval Weather Research der, Colo. Facility, Norfolk, Va. Before joining the Bureau in February 1965, Dr. Kahan, a nationally known expert in Progress of Nimbus II the atmospheric sciences relating to water supplies, was ex- Since launch on 15 May 1966 Nimbus II, the largest weather ecutive director of the University of Oklahoma Research In- ever put into orbit, passed its final objective test of stitute. His academic background includes a B.A. degree in two months of continuous operation and carried its perfect mathematics and chemistry from Denver University in 1936, record to over 10 weeks. During the last week of July two an M.A. in mathematics from the same university in 1940, tape recorders went out of action, but the 912-lb experi- an M.S. in meteorology from California Institute of Technol- mental spacecraft continues to transmit daytime and night- ogy in 1942, and a Ph.D. in meteorological oceanography at time cloud cover pictures. Texas A&M College in 1959. One of the tape recorders that failed was used to store data from the Medium Resolution Infrared Radiometer (MRIR); Dr. Stinson, who reported the other was used in measuring the engineering performance in September to the Denver of the satellite. The loss of the latter means that Nimbus II Federal Center for his duties must transmit information on the spacecraft's condition each as associate chief of the Of- time it passes over a ground station instead of holding it for fice of Atmospheric Water a more convenient playback later. Resources under Dr. Kahan, The loss of the MRIR data means that scientists no longer is a native of California. He receive information on the Earth's heat balance and the wa- earned a B.A. at Santa Bar- ter vapor and temperatures in the atmosphere. The MRIR bara College in 1948, an M.S. returned more than 1300 hours of data before failure. at St. Louis University in Nimbus II sensors that continue to provide valuable data 1955, and a Ph.D. in geo- (as late as mid-August) include the High Resolution Infrared physics at St. Louis Univer- Radiometer (HRIR) for measurement of global nighttime sity in 1958. cloud cover, the Advanced Vidicon Camera System (AVCS) * Commenting on Dr. Stin- for global daytime cloud cover, and the Automatic Picture son's appointment, Commis- Transmission (APT) system that transmits real-time pictures sioner of Reclamation Floyd E. Dominy said, "With the to relatively simple ground stations along the orbital path. acquisition of the services of Dr. Stinson, we have added a The number of pictures transmitted by the satellite had ex- brilliant scholar and an outstanding scientist to our atmos- ceeded 200,000 in early August. pheric water resources staff. Our goal is to determine the feasibility of increasing inflows into Reclamation reservoirs * Since the AVCS tape recorder failed in September, pic- by tapping the rivers of the sky. Dr. Stinson's knowledge and tures are limited to the range of the receiving station. experience will be of great value in our continuing efforts." (More news and notes on page 753) 711

Unauthenticated | Downloaded 10/06/21 10:13 PM UTC Bulletin American Meteorological Society ington, is now a meteorologist with the Weather Modification November eclipse preparations Project at Fresno State College, Fresno, Calif. More than 300 scientists and technicians from the United about our corporation members States will head for South America this fall to study the total eclipse of the Sun on 12 November. The studies are part of The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has an overall plan to develop a history of a complete solar cycle awarded supplementary research grants to the Massachusetts and the effects of solar events on the Earth's atmosphere. Institute of Technology for electromagnetic investigations of Scientists hope to learn more about the conditions of equi- planetary and solar atmosphere and the lunar surface, and librium between the Sun's turbulent atmosphere and the to the University of Chicago for experimental and theoretical Earth's environment, and the disturbances occurring near studies of energetic particles and electrodynamical processes the Sun's surface that upset this equilibrium. Observations in interplanetary space and in the vicinity of planets. will be made by many university and private laboratories with the assistance of government funding, and by govern- ment research organizations. Among the participating agen- cies are: the Air Force, Army, Navy, Atomic Energy Commis- (Continued from news and notes, page 711) sion, Department of Commerce, National Aeronautics and Stratospheric circulation workshop Space Administration, and the National Science Foundation. Included in the observations to be made are studies of the A two-week summer workshop on "The Stratospheric Circu- responses high in the atmosphere or on Earth to a sudden lation" was held at the University of Texas at El Paso-Texas interruption of sunlight. Nearly one-half of all United States Western College in mid-July. Willis L. Webb, meteorologist projects in the coming eclipse involve investigations in this in the Laboratory, White Sands Missile area. Subjects to be studied include: sky brightness—the scat- Range, Harold N. Ballard, WSMR research physicist, and tering of light by air; airglow—the faint light emitted by the Robert L. Schumaker, Schellenger Research Laboratories, atmosphere and visible on clear moonless nights; the travel were instructors for the workshop along with 11 guest lec- of electrons along lines of force in the Earth's magnetosphere; turers. The workshop consisted of a survey of techniques and characteristics of particular regions of the ionosphere (by the results of investigations into stratospheric circulation radar, radio, and other techniques); ozone concentration in undertaken by the Meteorological Rocket Network, according the atmosphere; and the generation of electrical currents in to Mr. Webb, a physics instructor at UTEP-TWC and author the earth. of the book, "Structure of the Stratosphere and ," used in the course. The 54 enrolled students, including sev- (More news and notes on page 755) eral scientists from foreign countries, were also given a tour of the MRN site at White Sands. Scheduled visiting lecturers for the workshop were: Richard A. Craig, Florida State University; Amos Eddy, University of Texas; Benson Fogle, University of Alaska; Bernhard Haur- Announcing the availability witz, National Center for Atmospheric Research; Francis S. Johnson, Southwest Center for Advanced Studies; William C. of a complete line of Meecham, University of Minnesota; Harold N. Murrow, NASA Langley Research Center; Jagir S. Randhawa, WSMR; Rich- @ ard J. Reed, University of Washington; Elmar R. Reiter, Colorado State University; Morton G. Wurtele, University of Sol-A-Meter California at Los Angeles. silicon cell solar radiometers:

Mark l-G weatherproof $150.00 Mark II laboratory-type pyranometer 99.50

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For complete technical details, write to: YELLOTT SOLAR ENERGY LABORATORY Dr. Max C. Bolen (1), head, Department of Physics, UTEP- 9051 North Seventh Avenue, Phoenix, Ariz. 85021 TWC, and Willis L. Webb inspect a map of the MRN sites.

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The U. S. Army Electronics Command set a world record in GILL MICROVANE & June wth a new type of which soared to a 3 CUP Sensitive, yet rugged, matched response height of nearly 30 miles. The launching site for the new sensors for measurement of horizontal wind. Instruments supplied with common mark of 156,000 ft was the E-Command's Evans Area, about mounting arm. (Also available separately.) 10 miles from Ft. Monmouth, N. J., and two miles from the $289.00 Atlantic coastline. The previous altitude record for a me- teorological balloon of 146,000 ft, nearly 28 miles, was made at Ft. Monmouth in 1959. Rising at an average speed of over 1500 ft per minute, the hydrogen-filled balloon carried aloft an advanced kind of GILL BIVANE , called a hypsometer, that transmits extremely Fast response, low inertia, bi-directional precise readings on , temperature, and vane. Records measurements of both azi- muth angle and elevation angle. Ideal for humidity. Altitude is computed from the pressure and tem- turbulence and diffusion studies. perature data; wind speed and direction are obtained by $476.00 tracking the balloon from the ground. Col. N. M. Swomley, Jr., director of the Command's At- mospheric Sciences Laboratory, is in charge of the meteoro- logical research. J. M. LeBedda, chief of the Meteorological Systems Development Division, is the work supervisor and

M. B. Sharenow is the project engineer. The program is par- GILL PROPELLER VANE tially supported by the Air Force. The aim of the work is Single instrument records azimuth angle and wind speed detail on dual chart. Low development of new highly elastic materials and design fea- threshold and fast response with minimum tures for radiosonde balloons that will reach very high levels overshoot. before bursting in the rarefied air. $347.00 In achieving the 30-mile mark, the E-Command research- ers used a "balloon carrier" technique in which an outer balloon with a streamlined skirt encases a high-altitude spherical balloon. The outer balloon serves two purposes. First, it cuts down flight time by rising more rapidly to the 50,000 ft mark than would the inner balloon alone. At that GILL ANEMOMETER BIVANE Records complete wind data at a point in approximate level, the outer balloon, continuing to expand space—total wind speed plus simultane- ous azimuth angle and elevation angle of as the air becomes thinner, bursts and falls away. The inner the wind. Designed specially for micro- balloon, freed of the extra weight, continues to rise to its meteorological research. bursting point. The second advantage is that the casing pro- $685.00 tects the inner balloon from the especially adverse atmos- pheric conditions encountered during the first 50,000 ft. The two balloons together weigh slightly over 13 lb, the inner one alone, less than 9 lb. Only 300 cu ft of hydrogen is used for inflation. Total diameter is a little over 8 ft at GILL PROPELLER ANEMOMETER the start of the flight. Measures directly a single component of the wind. Propeller response as a function of its orientation to the wind very closely approximates the cosine law. Weather mod in Spanish $148.00 A Spanish translation of NAS-NRC Publication No. 1350, Weather and Climate Modification—Problems and Prospects, Vol. 1, Summary and Recommendations has been prepared by Dr. Manuel Lopez of W. E. Howell Associates and will be published shortly by the Sociedad Geografica de Colombia. Copies will be available on request from W. E. Howell Asso- GILL UVW ANEMOMETER Measures directly the three orthogonal ciates, Inc., Box 163, Lexington, Mass. 02173. vectors of the wind—along wind compo- nent "U," across wind component "V," vertical wind component "W." Low thresh- old, fast response. COSPAR meeting in Vienna $696.00 COSPAR, the Committee on Space Research of the Inter- national Council of Scientific Unions, held its 9th plenary meeting in Vienna, Austria, on 10-19 May 1966. Some 600 Send for complete specifications and prices: delegates from 33 countries, including about 180 from the United States, attended. R. M. YOUNG COMPANY The opening plenary session was devoted to welcoming addresses, annual reports from most of the 35 member na- P.O. BOX 1311 ANN ARBOR. MICHIGAN 48106 tional academies, and messages from the component Unions 721S JACKSON ROAD • PHONE C313) 665-74)6 (10 for COSPAR), ICSU bodies, and the UN. The work of

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One possibility suggested by the panel was the Group urged continued attention by amateur groups to good improvement of local weather services by means of APT observations, particularly in the Southern Hemisphere, and equipment for receiving pictures from the TIROS satellites. also urged that coverage should be increased. Such units have been built at universities and are considered Working Group II—Design and Coordination of Experi- not beyond the reach of universities in developing countries. ments is especially concerned with the development of a worldwide network of meteorological rocket stations. In New weather and hydro stations in Nepal addition to the 15 U. S. stations, regular firings are conducted by the U. K. Meteorological Office at South Uist in the A recently established weather station and a gaging station Hebrides, and rockets have been fired from India, Pakistan, to measure snow and glacier melt from Mt. Everest are now Australia, France, Italy, Iceland, Norway, , Spain, making significant contributions to the International Hydro- , Egypt, Israel, USSR, and Brazil. German logical Decade (1964-1974) and to the Nepal Government's groups have fired rockets from various sites outside Europe; cooperation for effective data gathering. What took months Japan is testing rockets in preparation for regular firings in of planning was accomplished in one week after a plane a year or so, and Canada, Greece and Colombia have ex- dropped a party of five with all equipment and supplies at pressed interest. Rockets have been fired at McMurdo Sound, the Lukha airstrip. Technical assistance for the project was Antarctica, at Thule, Greenland, and from ships. In all, some furnished by the U. S. Agency for International Development 4000 soundings are now available. Specific recommendations (AID) and the World Meteorological Organization. evolving from the discussions of WG-II and Working Group Woodrow W. Evett, an AID geologist who played an im- III—Data and Publications are embodied in the following portant part in planning the gaging station, and his wife COSPAR Resolution 2 on Meteorological Rocket Data: were members of the installation party. Mrs. Evett acted as recorder for her husband when he sounded and measured COSPAR, the river flow at the gaging site. Also in the group were the noting with satisfaction activities in fostering the develop- Nepal Government director of meteorology, a United Nations ment of a global meteorological rocket network through advisor in meteorology, M. Gilead, and a reporter. publication of a COSPAR Techniques Manual for strato- A three-day climb with seven porters to carry equipment spheric observations, and by encouraging the publication of and supplies found the party sleeping nights in Sherpa current meteorological rocket observations by WDC-A for homes, eating yak jerky and pounded rice, and drinking Ti- Meteorology, betan butter tea. They spent two nights in the home of strongly endorses these efforts to make observations avail- Dawa Tensing, Hillary's Sirda Sherpa or chief guide, who to the scientific community with a minimum of delay, managed the camp at 26,000 ft from which Sir Edmund urges all nations with meteorological sounding rocket pro- made his successful climb in 1953. grams to submit observations to World Data Centers for Meteorology, preferably within four weeks after launching and using the format to be published in the COSPAR-IQSY Techniques Manual on Stratospheric Temperature and Wind Measurements; and invites the World Meteorological Organization to endorse the central collection and publication of meteorological sounding rocket data by the World Data Centers for Me- teorology as part of the WMO scheme to provide meteoro- logical data for research workers. Working Group IV—International Reference Atmosphere added support to the request of other working groups for more data in the region between balloon ceilings (30-40 km) and satellite levels. The group's latest revision of the COSPAR International Reference Atmosphere 1965 is widely used as a basis for comparison of atmospheric data on density, pressure and temperature as functions of height, season and solar activity. The group is now beginning work on the modelling of essentially regular dynamical effects. Working Group V—Space Biology gave considered atten- The weather station was set up on a terrace in Namche tion to the question of space probe sterilization, the exchange Bazaar. Conferring on the finished job are Mordechai Gilead, of information on the techniques now in use in the USSR WMO advisor to the Nepal Government; M. N. Sharma, local and the United States, and to plans for future probes. Nepalese who will take twice daily readings; S. P. Adhikary, Working Group VI—Scientific Space Experiments Con- Nepal Government meteorologist; and W. W. Evett, U. S. cerned With the Properties and Dynamics of the Troposphere AID hydrologist.

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means reliable instrumentation

Mr. and Mrs. Evett shown with Dawa Tensing and his wife at Thyangboche, Nepal.

The river gage was anchored to a rock outcrop in a quiet MECHANICAL WEATHER STATION pool of the Chola Khola near Thyangboche at 14,000 ft. Without servicing-without external power —this sensitive but rugged instrument economically records four variables for 65 After measuring the width of the river the party sounded days. Proven dependability by field experience in arctic, desert, the depth and measured the current each .2 m across to ocean and tropical environments. 3 -1 determine the flow in m sec . Trainees were instructed in • Wind Direction 0° to 360°, ±3.6° reading and recording the level on the staff gage. These fig- • Wind Run (speed) 0.5 to 100 mph, ±2% • Temperature —30°F to +120°F, ±l°For ures will be forwarded to Katmandu monthly to be evaluated —90°F to -f 60°F, ± 1°F in relation to this original measurement. Only when many Rainfall (optional) 0.01" Tipping Bucket, ±1% to 27hr. such data are available for analyzing trends and for compari- son with other measuring sites, will the full value of the project be realized. The Chola Khola station has brought to 95 Nepal's estab- lished sites where river flow data are collected. The new weather station at Namche Bazaar, along with 35 tempera- ture-measuring and 100 rainfall-measuring stations, provide data on the various climates of Nepal and for weather fore- casts. In collecting and sharing its weather data Nepal has taken a great step forward in cooperation on the inter- national level.

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For additional information write or call: Hydrologic survey department men prepare to take the meteorology research, inc. current meter across the river in a cable car to measure depth 2420 north lake avenue, altadena, California 91001 and current at given positions. telephone: 213, 791-1286 (More news and notes on page 766)

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New publications White, administrator of the Environmental Science Services Effective Use of the Sea, the report of the President's Science Administration. The Center became operational on 15 August Advisory Committee, Dr. Gordon J. F. Macdonald, chairman, after weeks of exhaustive tests. The Center is located in the is for sale by the Superintendent of Documents, Government headquarters of ESSA's Coast and Geodetic Survey in Rock- Printing Office, Washington, D. C. 20402, at the price of ville, Md. $.60. Earthquakes anywhere in the world of medium magnitude The Prince William Sound, Alaska, Earthquake of 1964 and (6.5 on the Richter Scale) or larger will be reported to news Aftershocks is the title of Vol. I of Research Studies, dealing services and government agencies as quickly as their indi- with this quake and compiled by ESSA's Coast and Geodetic cations are received and analyzed. The global facilities of Survey. Vol. I summarizes in detail C&GS activities in Alaska the Coast and Geodetic Survey are used to provide the data. following the earthquake on 27 March. Two subsequent vol- The communications facilities of the Weather Bureau will umes will contain discussions and evaluations of the results be employed to distribute reports in the new ESSA system, of investigations. Volume I is for sale by the Government and both Weather Bureau and Survey facilities will serve as Printing Office (above) at $6.50. the focal points for additional information in local areas. The Coast and Geodetic Survey has long been active in Technical News Bulletin is a monthly periodical covering the the study of world earthquake belts, including their geo- research, developmental, cooperative, and publication activ- graphic and magnitude distribution and focal characteristics. ities of the National Bureau of Standards. It is available Information developed from these and other programs has from the Government Printing Office (above) at an annual made possible the prediction of earthquakes over large areas subscription rate of $1.50 plus 75 cents for foreign mailing. —such as Japan, Chile, and Alaska—for relatively long pe- riods of time, but nobody now has the ability to predict a specific earthquake. (Continued from news and notes, page 757) Programs of research into major facets of the earthquake problem are under way by the C&GS and other ESSA ele- Earthquake reporting center formed ments, including its Institute for Earth Sciences, Institute for Establishment of the National Earthquake Information Cen- Telecommunications Sciences and Aeronomy, and the Insti- ter (NEIC) was announced in August by Dr. Robert M. tute for Oceanography.

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