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encountered in procuring the necessary wind equipment through
usar.
The equipment received was found to be inccmplete.
2)
Mis
Progrems which vere initiated during the year
are still eontinuing:
a)
Formation of semiquantitative forecasti
niques for the local area based on statistical correlation s
relationships betveen observed values of the pressure, tempere
currence of precipitation, wind direction, and velocity, and t
temperature extrema experienced at Los Alamos at a later tine.
advantage of forecasting ty such a method is that a reliabilit; r index
my be appended to such forecasts which should then prove nore useful
in operational planning.
Assembling of the necessary quantitias of
data to permit of statistical treatment has been in progress s
nce
February, when teletype data became available to the Section.
The problem of dispersion of the “Water-Bo ler*
b)
Reactor stack gases was taken under consideration by the Secti
1950,
However, since available theories and equations on the
during
iepersion
process are in the testing stage it will be necessary to analy; ea
considerable baty of data before any conclusions may be drawn.
present a gradual assembling of the date is underway,
At the
It is hbped
that the Section will be able to begin analysis of it by March of
1951,
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