WEXLIRs

(continued)

the only way they could match the temperature minimum obgtrved’

at the ground was by air that must have been brought dows from
those heights and then cooled by evaporation,

" KELLOOs
WEXLER:

I want to get this clear - this is outside the thunderstdrs systen,

Yesg, it is outside the thunderstorm,

I will have to

lodk that

reference up - this was written in a peper sonetine in

ne §30's

by someone in the Bydrometeorological Section of the Burdsu ~ and
I forgot about it wmtil Lulejian mantioned it.

I think that

this

air entrainment probably is a fact that should be Looked into.
KELLOGOs

I am sure it does. Oddly enough, this leads directly to my next
point,

We have been wanting to take up several specific bases

that m ght cecur, That is, there are so many variables

fh this

problen of how debris gets back down to the ground that

felt

that it was better to fix our ideas by considering some

rather

explicit and definite cases, The first case we ean diss
quickly = that is where we have a surface burst. We havel

already

discussed this a little bit, end we can say that it depeniis

mostly

on how we set the weapon off and not on the atmospherie opnditions..
It is determined more by the condition of the ground

ani of the

ataosphere,
However, let's consider a case where we have an air bursth

Now,

I am making the sseumption tacitly when I talk about an alr burst
that here we have small particles that cannot cone to thel ground

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