issued at H minus 2h and H rinus 8 hours. Theseecnsistoé of trajottepice
fromthe shet site for the period H to M plus 72 hears, and were fop such
ten thousand feet, from ten te sinty theusané feet,

Revised trajectories

for the same period were issued af E plue 6 and H plus 15 hours,

fince

the trajectories represented movement ef air at specie senstant eltitudes,
they were act directly useable fer surface fall-eet forecasting.

Instead,

the forecasts were used by Radsafe perecenel primarily te sesist in analysis

of the long-range fall-out aspects and te alert other units ef the Amed
Forcea relative te the probable locations and altitudes of areas of airborne
radioactive particles.

The trajectories were prepared by censtructing

proqnostie charts for the period ef tine inwived and using these charte te
arrive at the trajectorice,

The aumber cf prognostic charte varied ith

the simplicity of the eystene, fower being wed vith systems moving o
developing alody, and moe for eyutene developing rapidly.

The trajectories

were derived mechanically by the superposition af ene prognostiechart over
encther ant making « sacoth transition from the flew and speedfield of one
chart to the Other,

oom

4. ConstantAltitude Bellow Flights, During the planing phase

of CASTLE, it was proposed that « project be instituted hereby constant
altitude balloons wuldbeused to determine thefeasibility of tracing

radicsstive debrisat selected levels.

This use of these ballconsas

predicated ca the assumption thet the movement of that part of the ratio

active cloud debris remaining in the air at a particular level eould be
deseribed ty a balloon flow at the same level, the balloon and radicactive
debris being similtanecusly carried along.

Since these balloons could be

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