of the precipitetion echoes in the horisontal
you could see whether that fs a more or less mifora p:

tion, That recalls scmething in my mind I heard about |

haven Laboratory also this spring. They made

measuremet:

radioactivity in rain, and for the firet part of this |
there waa nothing, and then at the end of the storm it

matter of high counts. And there they figured that it
juat a conjunction, that the radicactive aloud came inte] the
place with rain to then bring it dow. It vas a rather §
thing -- rather sharp mounteins there — which again indlestes
the very fine structure that would probably be grossly njesed ty curkpresent coarse network of radlosonde stations,
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Supposing you had a layer, Harry, of radioactive nate
like the kind of layer that we see when a anoke plume

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out on a stable dayend eproads in a big flat layer.Supposing

as the Thunderstors Project found — and you can coment fe

this, Dick Coons ~- as I recall sesing the results -I han

Locked at these systemtlcally, bot Just locking at the
pictures that have been published, there seens to be @gx
variation in the heigh of the rain rises in « given ~

a rather mall — area vhere ve have many cumulus srcund, Ant -

one cumulus might reach vp into this layer and another oa
might not.
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That's why I say I think thet if you could get owt seme xpugl
measurenents @ to whether your radicactivity ves vithin

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